List: obsolete term
Old-fashioned words and expressions no longer in use.
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- Ministry of Religious Education (1872-1877)
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- Bureau of Shrine Affairs (1900-1940)
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- Ministry of Divinities (1871-1872)
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji)
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji)
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department)
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- prefectural shrine (of Kyoto or Osaka)
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- unranked shrine
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- shrine ranking (abolished in 1946)
- company ranking
obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- Taisha-kyo (sect of Shinto; renamed Izumo Oyashiro-kyo in 1951)