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   Or daijingu. Outpost shrines (in total about seventy) of the Ise jingu established by the Ise priest Urata, Nagatami in the early Meiji period with a bunrei of the Ise jingu. They were intended to become local centres of Ise for state rites and some were strategically sited to protect the nation from foreign influences, Buddhism etc.. The Yokohama Ise Yama kotai jingu constructed under this programme was designed to prevent the spread of Christianity from the port area. Several kotai jingu were constructed voluntarily by resettled communities (e.g. in newly-colonised Hokkaido) who wished to re-establish their link with the centre of things. The Tokyo daijingu developed out of a yohaisho of Ise jingu built in the early Meiji period.