Japanese Name: 船上神社
Romanized Reading: Funagami Jinja
English Translation: Shrine of the Ship
Size: Tiny side shrine of Kikkou Jinja
Deity: ?
Fox Count: 2
First Visit: 18-Sep-2018
Location: Yodoe
-Nakama
Address: 642 Yodoecho Nakama, Yonago, Tottori 689-3424
Coordinates: 35.44446,133.4033865
A side shrine of Kikkou Jinja (亀甲神社 "Tortoise Shell Shrine") that has two small stone foxes watching over it. This one is not clearly associated with any particular deity, but it
might be implicitly related to Funadama-no-Kami (船玉神 "Ship Gem God"), guardian deity of ships and sailors, who is said to reside on ships. Note that this shrine also features a little stone ship to give this theory some footing. Then again, it might very well just be dedicated to a local minor Kami, which is actually what a
lot of shrines are about.
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