Reading up on Shinto, it seems like Japanese gods like to use a franchise model.
By models, you mean models of us?Well, if you want to use that kind of model as your example, than that's fine, I guess
(in reality, of course they offered up models of the actual ship)A warship's shrine receives its kami from a patron kami, who divides a portion of its spirit (bunrei) and transfers it to the ship. Afterwards, the captain and the crew will travel to the bunrei's point of origin to worship there.
See KanjoThat is to say, they
offer up figurines?The money offerings (saisen) to the ship's shrine are presented to the original shrine, but a lot of other stuff are used as offerings too!!OfferingsModels are quite often presented to the shrineL-like this!?It's a ship's appearanceThis is a 1/200 scale wooden figure of my waifu, Atago-hime wearing the bikini that she wore one time while on vacation in the Nansei Islands...
