Name: Shrine honours cats on Japanese island where felines outnumber humans
Uploaded: 2024-05-25T05:11:18-04:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: On a small island off Japan’s north-eastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja”, or Cat Shrine, mythologises cats as guardian angels of Tashirojima, where cats outnumber humans. According to legend, the island used to be famous for sericulture (silk production) and farmers would keep cats because […]

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Shrine honours cats on Japanese island where felines outnumber humans

On a small island off Japan’s north-eastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja”, or Cat Shrine, mythologises cats as guardian angels of Tashirojima, where cats outnumber humans. According to legend, the island used to be famous for sericulture (silk production) and farmers would keep cats because […]

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