Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine Office

A Carefully Built Shrine Office

The Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine Office (上の島神明神社社務所) is a shrine office with a reception room fitted with an alcove and shelves of the early Showa period in Kawashima Matsukuracho, Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on October 2, 2007 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a timber building with a tiled roof and a building area of 61 square metres; registration number 21-0140.

Three Rooms in a Row

Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine in Kawashima Matsukuracho, Kakamigahara, has 7 registered structures built from the early Showa period to 1937: its main hall, offering hall, office, purification pavilion, torii, banbei screen and arched bridge (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The shrine office faces east in the west of the precinct centre, a hip-and-gable building 6 bays by 3 bays with a tiled roof, of the early Showa period (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Three rooms run north to south: an earth floor and boarded room to the north, a formal entrance and 8-mat room in the middle, and a reception room with an alcove and staggered shelves to the south, wrapped by a veranda. The Agency notes its gently pitched roof and careful workmanship.

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it for its contribution to the historic landscape.

What to Look For

At the shrine office, look for the gently pitched hip-and-gable roof and the reception room with its alcove and shelves (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

It is owned by the Shinmei Shrine religious corporation (Agency for Cultural Affairs). No official information on visiting was found. The main hall, offering hall, shrine office, purification pavilion, torii, banbei screen and arched bridge are introduced together on the Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine page.