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
Sakurashinmachi
Tōkyū Dennentoshi Line
Tōkyō-to, Setagaya-ku, Shinmachi 2-17-1
東京都世田谷区新町2-17-1
久富稲荷神社
Hisatomi Inari Jinja
June 13, 2017
History
The origin of this Inari Jinja is not clear, but the Shin-pen-Musashi-Fudo-Kiko does mention a local Shintō deity covering about 50 households in the village of Shinmachi. It also says that there were three Inari Jinja in the village: one of the other two was the still extant Itomi Inari Jinja, about 750 metres as the crow flies from Hisatomi Inari. The third shrine no longer exists, it was probably merged into another shrine. The current main shrine building was rebuilt in 1931, the shrine office in 1986.
Description
About 600 metres from Sakurashinmachi Station. The shrine has two distinctive features. The first is the 250m long sandō (approach road) to the rear of the shrine, the second is the Fukurō-no-sha (The Owl Shrine).
The sandō passes through a residential district so it is used as much by local people as by visitors to the shrine. Nevertheless the five torii that punctuate it on its way to the shrine serve their function of marking the difference between the mundane and the sacred very effectively.
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Enshrined Deities:
Main
Ukanomitama-no-kami 宇迦能御魂神
From Merged Shrines
None
In-ground Shrines:
Fukurō-no-sha ふくろうの社
Earliest mention of:
Annual Festival: October 2
As regards the Owl Shrine, the shrine's home page tells us that in the mid-Shōwa Period (1950's) there was an old tree in the shrine grounds in which owls nested. During the night it was difficult to make out the form of the owls as they flew around and when visitors to the shrine actually saw one they would exclaim "a dream has come true." Dedication of a small shrine followed. A Fukurō Festival, actually a flea market, is held twice a year, in May and November.
