Ryūtōsan Shrine Explained

Religious Affiliation:	Shinto
Coordinates:	35.1008°N 129.0325°W
Deity:	Ōmononushi (Konpira Gongen) Kunitama Okami Amaterasu Okami
Consecration Year:	1678
Module:	Zoom: 14 Location relative to modern-day Busan

was a Shinto shrine in Korea. It is the earliest shinto shrine in Korea^[1] built by workers of the local Japan House trade office in 1678. Such shinto may have served a purpose of expressing and maintaining a Japanese identity outside of Japan, while the Japanese and Korean people lived relatively close during this period.^[2]

It was a Kotohira shrine dedicated to Ōmononushi and the protection of sailors.^[3] In addition it, alongside all other nationally ranked shinto shrines in Korea enshrined Amaterasu and Kunitama as a pair.

It was originally called, before being renamed .

It was destroyed after the liberation of Korea. Its former site is now part of Yongdusan Park.

Notes and References

1. Book: Shimizu, Karli . Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire . Rambelli . Fabio . 2022-10-06 . Bloomsbury Academic . 978-1-350-23498-7 . London New York (N.Y.) Oxford . English.
2. Grisafi . John G. . Shintō in Colonial Korea: A Broadening Narrative of Imperial Era Shintō .
3. Nakajima . Michio . 2010 . Shinto Deities That Crossed the Sea: Japan's" Overseas Shrines," 1868 to 1945. . Japanese Journal of Religious Studies . 37 . 1 . 21–46 . 27822898 . 31 January 2016.