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| | The ‘Kashima Jingu Gasshuku’ Experience |
 | | We were one of the first groups to arrive at Kashima Shimbuden; we quickly unloaded, found our assigned room (the gaijin had a pair of adjacent bunk rooms) on the second floor, and we settled in. |
 | | Kashima Jingu, which is traditionally twinned with the nearby Katori Jingu, is dedicated to the warrior-kami Taka-mika-zuchi whose story is told in the ancient Japanese text Kojiki (“Records of Ancient Matters,” 712 C.E.) (Bocking, 1997). |
 | | We walked a distance behind this shrine to visit a stone in a small enclosure, called kaname-ishi, that is believed to be the stone that the warrior-kami had extracted from the head of a giant catfish to seal down the earthquake kami, Nai, who also has the form of a giant catfish (Bocking, 1997). |
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