Imakumano Jinja

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Imakumano Jinja 新熊野神社 Imakumano Shrine

京都市東山区今熊野椥ノ森町４２



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Imakumano Shrine (新熊野神社) on Higashi Oki dori about 200 meters from the Sanjūsangen-dō (三十三間堂) temple towards the Sennyu-ji Temple grounds. You can’t miss the shrine because a huge Camphor tree is in shrine grounds. According to the notice board this camphor tree was transplanted from Kumano by retired emperor Go-Shirakawa (後白河天皇) himself. The sacred tree is worshipped as the god of health and long life.

Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu:
The Imakumano Shrine is not a large and famous shrine ( I don’t think you’ll find it in the tourist pamphlets), but it has a remarkable history. It is close linked to the earliest form of Noh called Sarugaku (猿楽). The sarugaku Noh troupe Yuzaki, led by Kan’ami, performed in 1374 before the young shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (足利 義満). The success of this one performance and the resultant shogunal patronage lifted the art form permanently out of the mists of its plebeian past.
The Birth Place of Noh:



In the Imakumano Shrine grounds where some colourful stone slabs. One is a large stone slab with different Noh characters and a smaller one has a typical Noh mask. There is someone standing under an umbrella and there is an older person and his son. Under the umbrella, I presume, shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Noh founders Kan’ami and his son Zeami.

History of Imakumano Shrine:
Established by retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa (後白河天皇) in 1160, by dividing the spirit of the Kumano shrine in Kishu (present day Wakayama) and to bring it here. It is said that Taira no Kiyomori (平 清盛), who established the first samurai dominated administrative government in the history of Japan, was asked by the emperor to built the Imakumano Shrine here. He used soil and wood from the old Kumano shrine in Kishu. He also brought collected small pebbles from the beach there to construct a “Sacred Space”.

The Imakumano Shrine gained veneration from the Imperial family, but was destroyed during the Onin no Ran. The Onin no Ran was a civil war fought mainly in and around Kyoto from 1467 to 1477. The present hondo was rebuilt in 1673.

The huge camphor tree in the precincts was transplanted from Kumano by retired emperor Go-Shirakawa (後白河天皇) himself. The sacred tree is worshipped as the god of health and long life.

The sarugaku Noh troupe Yuzaki, led by Kan’ami, performed in 1374 before the young shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (足利 義満). The success of this one performance and the resultant shogunal patronage lifted the art form permanently out of the mists of its plebeian past. From then, the term sarugaku gave way to the current nomenclature, Noh.

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Yatagarasu no ema 八咫烏絵馬 ema votive tablet with the three-legged crow of Kumano




geinoo jootatsu 芸能上達 amulet to improve in the performing arts



- Homepage of the shrine
- source : imakumanojinja.or.jp


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- source and photos : kyoto-albumwalking2.cocolog-nifty

kuzu no ki 楠 the old camphor tree
Its seedlings are sold as amulets for a long life. Pepole who have to go to hospital for an operation can plant this seedling in their garden.



Amulet especially for pain in the stomach


. Shrines for your health .

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. Kumano and Nachi -　熊野　那智 . - Wakayama

. Noh Theater　能楽　 .


. Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja　神社) - Introduction .


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