, sometimes Seoul Shrine, was a Shinto shrine in Keijō (Seoul), Korea, Empire of Japan. The shrine was established on November 3, 1898,青井哲人「ソウル・南山の神域化-植民都市と神社境内」(明治聖徳記念学会紀要復刊第43号、2006年)「神社祭神並創立調査表」 JACAR(アジア歴史資料センター) Ref.A03010213400 (国立公文書館) and destroyed on November 17, 1945, several months after the end of colonial rule.内務省告示第264号 官報第5660号(昭和20年11月22日) 1頁
The shrine was located to the north of the mountain Namsan.
Theological history Initially the shrine only worshipped Amaterasu but it later added the , Ōkuninushi, and Sukunahikona used in Japanese colonial shrines. after it was established that it would not become the Chosen Jingu.
Uniquely it referred to Kunitama as Chosen Kunitama suggesting a distinctly Korean flavor, as this shrine attempted to integrate many Korean customs. Many locals identified "Chosen Kunitama" with Dangun.
In 1936 the government released a memo saying that Okunitama was in fact a generic title for any Korean deity and not Dangun. The name was also changed to Kunitama-no-Okami as a parallel to Amaterasu Omikami
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