History

The shrine legend tells us that the it was established during the Heian Period in 941 and rebuilt in 1599. It seems that these events were recorded in documents kept at the shrine's betto-ji,  Hoshoji Temple, (which served the same function for both Seiso-Shirayama and Ozaki-Kumano shrines) but in 1856 there was a fire at the temple and the documents were destroyed, hence the lack of documentary evidence for the shrine's foundation (I assume this also applies to Seiso-Shirayama and Ozaki-Kumano shrines). During the Edo Period the shrine was known as the Gozu-tennō-sha  (牛頭天王社): Gozu-tennō is an alternative name for Susano-o-no mikoto (57)  and refers to his being the "manifest traces" of the "original substance" that is  Bhaiṣajya-guru, the Buddha of Medicine (Yakushi-nyorai 薬師如来) under the Honji Suijaku (lit: "original substance, manifest traces") concept. In 1872 the shrine was ranked as a village shrine, and in 1881 was given a Shinsen-heihakuryō-kyōshin-jinja designation.  Moving into the twentieth century, it became a religious corporation in December 1945. In 1958 the main hall