Hikawa Shrine Akasaka

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Hikawa Jinja 氷川神社 Akasaka 赤坂
東京都港区赤坂6-10-12

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Japanese Shinto shrine in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan. In Tokyo, it is the best known of the 59 branch shrines of the Hikawa jinja, which was designated as the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) for the former Musashi province.



The shrine structures were constructed in 1730 under the patronage of Tokugawa Yoshimune. This became Yoshimune's personal shrine.
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赤塚氷川神社所蔵「- 礼図絵馬

- source : www.city.itabashi.tokyo.jp

. 氷川明神 Hikawa Myojin and 十一面観音Juichimen Kannon .
Around 950, a priest named 連林 Renrin ...

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amulet for finding a good partner



- Homepage of the shrine
- source : www.akasakahikawa.or.jp

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When the spirits of mountains and forests roam the streets of Tokyo
(2016) At this year’s Hikawa Matsuri in Tokyo’s Akasaka district I got to see three different dashi – traditional wheeled floats – being pulled through the streets. Accompanying them were elders of shrine wearing flat circular hats, as well as an impressive Tengu draped in orange. Tengu are a type of legendary creature found in Japanese folklore. Buddhism long held that the tengu were disruptive demons and harbingers of war. Their image gradually softened, however, into one of protective, if still dangerous, spirits of the mountains and forests.
- source : ikimasho.net/2016/09/27 -


. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア　- Tengu ABC-List.

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

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Pond of Sampō-ji Temple, Hikawa Myōjin Shrine
三宝寺池 弁財天 氷川明神

Sampō-ji is a Shingon Buddhist temple that was founded in 1394 (the first year of Ōei)
by Kōson Hōin of Daitoku-ji Temple in Kamakura.
The Benzaiten was enshrined on the small island located in Sampō-ji Ike pond.
To the south of Sampō-ji Temple there was the ruins of Shakujii-jō, a castle of the Toshima clan,
which used to control Shakujii in the last years of the Kamakura Shogunate.
Hikawa Myōjin is the shrine which served as a guardian deity of 石神井城 Shakujii Castle.
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. Shakujii Myōjinshi 石神井明神祠 Shakuji Myojin Shrine .

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もの食ふは氷川神社の秋祭
mono kuu wa Hikawa jinja no aki matsuri

to eat means
to go to the autumn festival
at Hikawa shrine
Tr. Gabi Greve

Kishimoto Naoki 岸本尚毅


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