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。
Kanagawa-ken, Kawasaki-shi, Saiwai-ku, Kashimada 684
神奈川県川崎市幸区鹿島田684
鹿島大神
Kashima Daijin
Home page: none
February 7, 2018
Nearest station
Shin-Kawasaki
Yokosuka/Shōnan-Shinjuku Lines
This is the only Kashima Daijin in Kanagawa-ken, there are five Kashima JInja. I visited it looking for any Sacred Deer (神鹿, Shinroku) connotations following my visit to Kashima Jinja in Tōkyō's Edogawa-ku. While I did find such a connotation, in the form of a carving, the shrine itself can hardly be described as interesting, and but for the sacred Deer aspect I would probably not write about it.
History
Origin is thought to have been during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333) when pioneers moving in to develop the land in what is now Kashimada set up a jinja enshrining the kami of Kashima Jingū through the kanjō process (Kashima Jingū is the Ichinomiya of Hitachi
Enshrined Kami:
Main
Takemizuchi-no-mikoto 武甕槌命
Futsunushi-kami 経津主神
From Merged Shrines
None
In-ground Shrines:
None
Annual Festival: 2nd Sunday of October
Province). During the Edo period it became the tutelary jinja of Kashimada-gun, the existence of which is attested to by a record held at Kamakura's Tsuruoka Hachiman-Gū dating to 1289. It was moved to its present location in 1927 following the construction of a nearby signalling equipment factory.
Description
About five min on foot from Shin-Kawasaki Station. Basically a neighbourhood shrine with no particular visual appeal. On passing through the torii there is a kindergarten affiliated to the jinja on the left.
(Click on images to expand them)
