Mikoshi (sacred portable shrines) are brought to special places in each neighborhood where they are enshrined.

The portable shrine is used to physically protect the shintai and to hide it from sight.

The city has 81 large wooden carts, each holding a portable shrine or danjiri.

Later, temporary buildings similar to present day portable shrines were constructed to welcome the gods to the sacred place.

It features competitions between groups carrying mikoshi portable shrines.

You can see historic mikoshi portable shrines and a parade of floats.

The parts are unified into an ensemble that resembles a small portable shrine.

In Autumn Festival, many young men carry a portable shrine and pray for a good crop of harvest.

He is usually worshipped at portable shrines.

I also have an old portable shrine that belonged to Patera Pike.