Bunrei

Bunrei or wakemitama (分霊) is a Shinto term that means splitting a Shinto kami so that you can make another shrine for it.Smyers, Karen Ann (1999). The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824820589. Shrines do bunrei to bring their gods to "child" shrines elsewhere.https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E5%88%86%E9%9C%8A The spirit of the kami is not considered less important or weaker after bunrei.https://wasedajinja.jp/2018/02/10/post-379/ 

Bunrei helps believers worship the god more easily. Because they can have a shrine near where they live.

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