Japanese Kamidana Sinto Shrine – Three Shrine Space

This handcrafted Japanese Shinto Kamidana is crafted from premium Tono Hinoki cypress. It features a three-door compartment adorned with elegant brass hardware, designed to display sacred items and house daily offerings. Please note that two small decorative wooden pieces beneath the eave were missing when we acquired it. (The price made to reflect this matter.)Beyond this minor detail, the altar remains in excellent overall condition. Authentic and directly imported from Japan. Only one available.

A kamidana is a miniature Shinto altar used in Japanese homes and workplaces to enshrine and worship a kami (deity or spirit). Placed high on a clean, bright wall (above eye level) facing east or south, it usually rests in a living room, office, or dojo.

Core Components

Miyagata: A miniature wooden shrine box, typically made of Japanese cypress (hinoki).

Shintai: A physical object housing the kami, giving it a form for worship. Most commonly a small circular mirror, it can also be a magatama jewel or another symbolic item. Through a process called kanjō, worshippers obtain a portion of the kami (bunrei) from a shrine—usually representing a local deity or one tied to the owner’s profession.

Ofuda: A paper or wooden protective talisman from a public Shinto shrine (jinja) that holds the deity’s essence. Historically, these emblems (shinsatsu) represented local community kami, but modern practice favors higher-ranking deities (shinkai), typically via amulets from the Ise Grand Shrine.

Shingu: Daily offering vessels for water, rice, salt, sake, and evergreen sakaki sprigs.

Shimenawa & Shide: A sacred twisted rice straw rope with zig-zag paper streamers that marks the altar as a pure, sacred space.

Dimensions: 10″ x 25″ x 16″