Kunitama

Kunitama (国魂) is a type of kami or god who acts as a tutelary deity or guardian of a province of Japan or sometimes other areas in Shinto.

The term is sometimes treated as a specific deity itself especially with Hokkaidō Shrine, and other colonial shrines, a or as an epithet in the case of Okunitama Shrine or a part of a deity's name in the case of Yamato Okunitama, whose name is also sometimes interpreted as an epithet.

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