普通の外にいくつかの著名な品質を持っている、と畏敬の念を起こさせるあるいかなるビーイングは、カミと呼ばれています。
Nearest station
Higashikurume
Seibu Ikebukuro Line
Tōkyō-to, Higashikurume-shi, Minamisawa 3-5-8
東京都東久留米市南沢3-5-8
氷川神社 (南沢)
Hikawa Jinja (Minamisawa)
Home page: (Japanese)
September 30, 2018
History
This Hikawa Jinja is located in the Minamisawa Spring area of Higashikurume and has rivers running by it on two sides. Its foundation date is unclear, but according to a document written by the 22nd chief priest of the shrine, Kurihara Sainoshin (栗原済之進), in 1900, its location meant that from olden times there had been a small jinja where the Kami of Springs was worshipped. As the area developed this shrine was rebuilt in 1654 in the style of the Hiijinja (斐伊神社) in Izumo with the support of three senior Tokugawa retainers, Kuze Yamato-no-kami (久世大和守), Kamiya Yoshichirō (神谷与七郎) and Mineya Hannosuke (峰屋半之焏 ). Coming into the Meiji Period the shrine was given village shrine ranking and
Enshrined Kami:
Main
(Note: numbers in parentheses after kami names
refer to position in How Many Kami table)
Kushinada-hime-mikoto (70) 櫛稲田姫命
Ōnamuchi-kami 大己貴神
From Merged Shrines
None
In-ground Shrines:
Inari Jinja 稲荷神社
YakumoJinja 八雲神社
Inari Jinja 稲荷神社
Ōkami-Gū 大神宮
Annual Festival:
designated a Shinsen-heihakuryō-kyōshin-jinja. By the 1930s it had become somewhat dilapidated and in 1937 work started on planning rebuilding. WWII intervened, however, and nothing was done. Rebuilding was carried out in 1950, but in 1969 the shrine was destroyed by fire and rebuilding after this tragedy was completed in 1971.
Description
About 15 minutes walk from Higashikurume Station. The footpath leading to the shrine runs alongside the Ochiai River in its latter stages and the setting is bucolic. The shrine itself is not that exciting visually, but its head priest fulfils that function for eleven shrines in the area and some of those have their own quirky appeal.
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