Iwashimizu Hachimangu Legends

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Iwashimizu Hachimangu 石清水八幡宮 Legends - Kyoto

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During the war in Oshu 奥州 Northern Japan, 源頼義軍 the army of Minamoto no Yoriyoshi did not find enough water to drink.
Therefore Yoriyoshi turned to the direction of 石清水八幡宮 the Shrine Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto to pray.
Then he tapped the side of a rock and oh wonder, water came flowing from below it.
Now the army was saved.
After the war he took some water of this well in a large jar and brought it to Kyoto.
The villagers later dut a well at the spot were the water was found.


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. Shrine Hakozaki Hachimangu 福岡筥崎八幡宮 .

Hakozaki no Hachimangu 筥崎八幡宮

When the Mongol invasion started in 1274, the priests from 石清水八幡宮 the Shrine Iwashimizu Hachimangu
and 筥崎八幡宮 the Shrine Hakozaki Hachimangu took a kaburaya 鏑矢 arrow with a whistle and shot it in the Western direction.
. kaburaya 鏑矢 a whistling arrow .

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Hakozaki Shrine (筥崎宮, Hakozaki-gū) is a Shintō shrine in Fukuoka .
Hakozaki Shrine was founded in 923, with the transfer of the spirit of the kami Hachiman from Daibu Hachiman Shrine in what is Honami Commandry, Chikuzen Province in Kyūshū.
During the first Mongol invasion on November 19, 1274 (Bun'ei 11, 20th day of the 10th month),
the Japanese defenders were pushed back from the several landing sites. In the ensuing skirmishes, the shrine was burned to the ground.
When the shrine was reconstructed, a calligraphy Tekikoku kōfuku (敵国降伏; surrender of the enemy nation) was put on the tower gate.
The calligraphy was written by Emperor Daigo, dedicated by Emperor Daijo Kameyama as a supplication to Hachiman to defeat invaders.
The shrine is highly ranked among the many shrines in Japan.
It was listed in Engishiki-jinmyōchō (延喜式神名帳) edited in 927. In 11th or 12th century, the shrine was ranked as Ichinomiya (一宮; first shrine) of Chikuzen Province.
From 1871-1946, Hakozaki was officially designated a Kanpei-taisha (官幣大社), in the first rank of government supported shrines.
Other similar Hachiman shrines were Iwashimizu Hachimangū of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture and Usa Shrine of Usa in Ōita Prefecture.
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高松市 Takamatsu city 川部町 Kawanabe town

. 青龍 Seiryu, an Azure Dragon statue .




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上京区 Kamigyo ward

shiraha no ya 白羽の矢 arrow with white feathers
In 1715, at 仙洞御所 the Sento Imperial Palace, an arrow with white feathers came falling down from the sky.
This was considered an auspicious event.
People wrote 和歌 a Waka poem about it and send it off to 石清水八幡宮 the Shrine Iwashimizu Hachimangu.


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