Ichinomiya

Ichinomiya (一宮, also 一の宮 or 一之宮, first shrine) is a Japanese term for the chief Shinto shrines in each of the pre-modern provinces.^[1]

The ichinomiya are the shrines with the highest shrine rank in an area.^[2] Shrines of the lower rank are called ninomiya (二宮, second), sannomiya (三宮, third), shinomiya (四宮, fourth), and so forth.

1. ↑ "Ichi no miya/Sōja," Archived 2020-08-05 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopedia of Shinto; retrieved 2012-8-24.
2. ↑ The provincial ichinomiya sometimes became place names, such as the city of Ichinomiya, Aichi.