page_title: Setsumatsusha
section_title: Architectural style
hierarchical_section_title: Setsumatsusha / Architectural style
caption_attribution_description: Sankō-jinja, Tennōji, Ōsaka, Ōsaka, Japan w:ja:三光神社（大阪市天王寺区）末社三社（武内宿禰社・野見宿禰社・主守稲荷社）
context_page_description: Sessha and massha, also called eda-miya are small or miniature shrines entrusted to the care of a larger shrine, generally due to some deep connection with the enshrined kami.
  The two terms used to have legally different meanings, but are today synonyms. Setsumatsusha can lie either inside or outside the main shrine's premises. Setsumatsusha are usually 1x1 ken in size. They can however be as small as beehives or relatively large and have 1x2, 1x3 or even, in one case, 1x7 bays.
context_section_description: Being true shrines, setsumatsusha have most features other types of shrines have, including doors and often stairs. However, the Misedana-zukuri (見世棚造 or 店棚造 showcase style) is a style normally used only in sessha and massha. It owes its name to the fact that, unlike other shrine styles, it doesn't feature a stairway at its entrance, and the veranda is completely flat. Miniature stairways can however be present. They can be either tsumairi (妻入), that is have the entrance under the gable, or, more frequently, hirairi (平入), that is, have the entrance on the side parallel to the roof's ridge (see examples in the gallery). Apart from the lack of a staircase, such shrines belong to the nagare-zukuri or kasuga-zukuri styles.
caption: A massha at Sankō Shrine in Ōsaka
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