In Shinto shrine architecture, the Шаблон:Nihongo, also called Шаблон:Nihongo, or sometimes Шаблон:Nihongo as in Ise Shrine's case, is the most sacred building at a Shinto shrine, intended purely for the use of the enshrined kami, usually symbolized by a mirror or sometimes by a statue.[1][2] The building is normally in the rear of the shrine and closed to the general public.[3] In front of it usually stands the haiden, or oratory. The haiden is often connected to the honden by a heiden, or hall of offerings.[4]
Physically, the honden is the heart of the shrine complex, connected to the rest of the shrine but usually raised above it, and protected from public access by a fence called tamagaki. It usually is relatively small and with a gabled roof. Its doors are usually kept closed, except at religious festivals. Shinto priests themselves enter only to perform rituals.[1] The rite of opening those doors is itself an important part of the shrine's life.[3] Inside the honden is kept the Шаблон:Nihongo, literally, "the sacred body of the kami". The go-shintai is actually not divine, but just a temporary repository of the enshrined kami.[5]
Important as it is, the honden may sometimes be completely absent, as for example when the shrine stands on a sacred mountain to which it is dedicated, or when there are nearby himorogi (enclosure) or other yorishiro (substitute object) that serve as a more direct bond to a kami.[3]Ōmiwa Shrine in Nara, for example, contains no sacred images or objects because it is believed to serve the mountain on which it stands (Mount Miwa).[6][7] For the same reason, it has a Шаблон:Nihongo, but no honden. In this sense, it is a model of what the first Shinto shrines were like.[7]
Another important shrine without a honden is Suwa Taisha, head of the Suwa shrine network.
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