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。
Nagano-ken, Ueda-shi, Daimon 2338
長野県上田市大門2338 Google Map
30 January, 2021
別所神社 Bessho Jinja
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Nearest station: Bessho Onsen (BE15) Ueda Electric Line
Enshrined Kami:
Main
Kumano Ōkami 熊野大神
From Merged Shrines
None
In-ground Shrines:
Annual Festival:
This is the seventeenth of my ex post facto shrine reports, and it has become one of sentimental interest to me; I visited it in 2004 with my late wife, Mitsuko (she is the young lady seen cavorting in the sacred grounds in three of the photos.) It lies a little to the north of the Bessho hot spring in Ueda, Nagano.
It is said that the shrine was founded as an offshoot of the Kumano Hongū Taisha through the bunri process, possibly in the last decade of the twelfth century, and was originally called Kumano-sha. It moved to its present location in 1682 and took its present name in 1878.
The shrine’s main hall, constructed in 1788, was designated a tangible cultural asset by Ueda-shi in 1994. It was designed and built by one Sueno Shōbei Yasusada: the Sueno family was one of the leading builders of shrines and temples in the region.
Note that the name on the Shingaku (神額, the plaque showing the shrine’s name on the torii), shown on the right, reads Honchō-enmusubi-Ōkami本朝縁結大神, lit. the Great God of Marriage of this Land, indicating that the shrine has traditionally been associated with the tying of the nuptial knot.

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