This is the seventh of the ex post facto shrine reports I compiled while under self-isolation during the  (now-lifted) Covid-19 State of Emergency in Tōkyō. I visited it in November 2014.

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Ōe Jinja’s home page tells us  that it is said to be one of the Seven Tennōji no Miya, meaning that it  was founded in the late seventh century. While Toyouke Ōkami was the jinja’s original kami, Bishamonten was also enshrined along with the intermingling of Shintō and Buddhism and the shrine came to be known as Inui-no-Sha 乾の社, in recognition of its position to the northwest of Tennō-ji Temple.　

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It fell under the jurisdiction of said temple and a shingūji神宮時was built within the shrine grounds. With the enforcement of the Shinbutsu-bunri in the early Meiji Period the shrine adopted its present name in 1867 and