Inu Jinja - dog shrines

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Inu Jinja, Inu-jinja 犬神社 /　伊奴神社 / イヌ神社　dog shrines

aiken jinja　愛犬神社　Shrine for the beloved dog
wanchan jinja わんちゃん神社 Shrine for the beloved doggie


There are many shrines in Japan with this name, for example in

Nagoya
Shizuoka

. Inu 戌 /　犬　Dog Amulets .

. Daruma Papermachee Dogs 戌年の張子 .

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Nagoya - Inu Jinja　伊奴神社









source :　ryushi/inujinja

The shrine dates back to the year 673, when rice harvested in the region was given as offering to the Emperor Tenmu Tenno 天武天皇 in a ritual called Engishiki 延喜式.
So its history is now more than 1330 years old.

Once upon a time
there was a severe flooding in the region. The farmers asked a Yamabushi priest for help. The priest made a ritual wand (gohei御幣), placed it near the river and held a prayer session. In this year, there was no flooding and the farmers harvested a rich crop.
When the curious farmers opened the ritual wand, they found pictures of four dogs and the words "king of the dogs" Inu no O 犬の王" written on paper.
But because they had been so curious and opened the wand, the spell was lost and flooding occured again.
The mountain priest now told them: "Take the broken wand, bury it in the ground and build a shrine on this place."
Since then, flooding finally eased in this region.




The deity Inuhime no Kami 伊奴姫神 is only worshipped in this shrine.
Since a dog gives an easy birth, a pregnant woman has to come to this shrine on the day of the dog in the fifth month of her pregnancy and get a special white maternity band for her stomach (iwataobi, iwata obi 岩田帯) .
Some women by that band at the shrine, others buy it in a shop and bring it here for a special purification ritual before using it.


(The word iwata derived from yuhada 結肌帯 /斎肌帯.）




Calendar for 2013 with the "Dog Days" -戌の日カレンダー
Each month has two or three of these special days.

Inuhime no Kami is also helping women in getting pregnant.
And after a baby is born, it is presented to the deity with a special thanks ritual.
source : inu-jinjya.or.jp





amulet for an easy birth


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Inu jinja shrine is dedicated to three deities. Susano-no-mikoto 素盞嗚尊, the main deity of the shrine, is associated with safety at home and also for repelling bad luck and unhappiness. The second deity of the shrine, Otoshi-no-kami 大年神 , is famous as the god of business and is also worshipped as the god of agriculture.

The third deity, Inuhime-no-kami, is associated with safe delivery during childbirth and also for good health of children. It is said that in the year 673 Emperor Temmu came and harvested rice in the area surrounding the shrine.
It is believed that the shrine came into existence around that time. It is also believed to be the origin of the name of the area ‘Ino-cho’. Since the name of the shrine is Inu jinja, this shrine is very famous amongst people having dogs as pets or dog lovers. This is because the Japanese word for dog is ‘inu’. However, it is just the phonetic pronunciation of ‘inu’ that is similar, and actually the kanji character for dog is different than that of this shrine.

To the right hand side of the main altar, there is another building named emaden　絵馬殿. ... Common wishes are for success in work or in exams, marital bliss, to have children, and health.
People born in the year of the dog、戌年生まれ come here to pray.




A stone-carved guardian dog named inu-no-sekizoo 犬の石像　is displayed in front of the main altar of the shrine. This guardian dog is associated with safe delivery during childbirth.

More photos :
source : creative.sulekha.com


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Shizuoka - Reiken Jinja 霊犬神社
Shizuoka, Iwata town 静岡県磐田市, Mitsuke 見付（静岡県）




wanchan jinja わんちゃん神社 Wanchan Dog Shrine
wanchan is the Japanese equivalent of doggie, the beloved pet dog.





This shrine is located at the back of Mitsuke Tenjin 見付天神 at
Yanahime Jinja 矢奈比売神社


霊犬早太郎伝説 The legend of the spiritual dog Hayataro
and his relation to Yanahime Jinja.
. Koozenji 光前寺 Kozen-Ji - Nagano .

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Inu Mikuji 犬みくじ






Inu Omamori　お守り, even with Dog's Paws
source :　amorecane.exblog.jp




The dog venerated at this small shrine is
Shippei Taroo しっぺい太郎 / 悉平太郎.
It is the only dog venerated as a deity in Japan.
source : daturyok/sizu/mituke







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Mitsuketenjin Hadakamatsuri
This is the grand festival of Yanahime Shrine (Mitsuketenjinsha) held on the Saturday and Sunday right before August 10 of the Lunar Calendar, and is called Hadakamatsuri (naked festival)" because men wearing a Japanese loincloth (called fundoshi) with a straw raincoat on around their waists dance wildly in the hall of worship of Yanahime Shrine and various sites of Mitsuke.
28 groups make four teams, walking around the town barely naked to the shrine. They wage a fierce battle dance called "Oni-odori　鬼踊り" (devil's dance), screaming "Oisho! Oisho!".
The festival is held when the enshrined deity of Yanahime Shrine passes to Omi Kunitama Shrine, the Sosha of Totomi-no Kuni. Since the festival retains its ancient ritual condition, it was designated as a state important intangible folk cultural property on December 27, 2000.
source : bunkashisan.ne.jp


. WKD - Naked Festivals (hadaka matsuri　裸祭り) .



. Mitsuke-juku 見附宿 - Nr. 28 of the Tokaido Road 東海道 .

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Kuroinu Jinja 黒犬神社 "Black Dog Shrine"
Fujieda Town 藤枝市
source : daturyok/sizu sonota1


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Kuroinu Shrine in Kiganji Temple
enshrines the ledendary undefeated sacred black dog named Kuro which is said to have been one of the wolves sent from Harunosan Daikoji (Kiganji started as a shugendo(Buddhism-Shinto hybrid) temple in 8th century so the temple also had shrines).



About 200 years ago when Tanaka castle was ruled by Honda clans, the lord of Tanaka castle challenged Kuro against his white dog. Kuro defeated the lord's dog but that angered the lord and he ordered his men to behead the black dog.

Kuro outran the pursuers but he was finally cornered at the old well of the temple. He had to throw himself into the well. Then with eery shrieks, the sky darkened with black clouds and came thousands of wolves from Harunosan. Lord of Tanaka castle then felt ashamed of what he has done to the sacred dog and made a shrine to appease the dog's soul.

Today the figure of Kuro is surrounded by the figurines of cute doggies including those of Peanut's Snoopy donated from the visitors all over Japan. People who visit the shrine pray for winning the games, and for his/her pet's health.
source : members.virtualtourist.com



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Inuyama Jinja 犬山神社
愛知県犬山市大字犬山字北古券12


source :　trip.hiwadasan.com

During the Edo period, Inuyama was a sub-domain of the Owari Domain, entrusted to senior retainers of the Nagoya-branch of the Tokugawa clan.

The shrine was located in the south of the castle of Inuyama 犬山城.
The first lord of the castle and his Naruse clan 成瀬氏 are venerated here.
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. Folk Toys from Aichi / Inuyama .


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. WKD : Dogs and Haiku .


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. Inu　お守り　- 戌 /　犬　Dog Amulets .

. Daruma Papermachee Dogs 戌年の張子 .


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Kobayashi Issa visiting

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Kobayashi Issa　小林一茶　
(June 15, 1763 - January 5, 1828)



He visited many shrines and temples and wrote haiku including their names or about the situation he encuontered there.


. WKD : Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo - Introduction .

I will try and list them here.

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. Kasuga Taisha 春日大社 Great Kasuga Shrine . Nara

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shrine and temple - miya to tera




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


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. Chion-In 知恩院 / 智恩院 Temple in Kyoto .


. Jizo Bosatsu (Kshitigarbha) 地蔵菩薩 .


. Oojooji 往生寺 Ojo-Ji .

. Saimyooji 最明寺 Saimyoji .
Kazahaya, Hojo City, Iyo no Kuni, Shikoku

. shichi daiji 七大寺 the seven large temples of Nara .


. Zenkooji 善光寺 Zenko-Ji, Zenkoji . Nagano


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. WKD : Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .

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Ina Jinja

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- Akayama Kaido, see below

Ina Jinja　伊奈神社　　

Gotemba　御殿場, Kanagawa. Former Odawara domain.




The shrine is in honor of
Ina Hanzaemon Tadanobu 伊奈半左衛門忠順

After the great earthquake in November 1707, only 49 days later, there was a huge eruption of Mount Fuji which devastated a huge area around Gotemba, the lava gravel flying even up to the town of Edo.

In the village of Subashiri 須走 more than 3.50 meters of lava gravel, cinder, ash and scoria covered the earth.
Homes and forests burned down, the fields were lost under the ashes.

The Bakufu government in Edo collected extra tax contributions for the reconstruction of the region, but a lot of that money went into other channels - building new quarters in the Harem of Edo Castle (Ooku　大奥), entertaining a delegation from Korea and so on.



Hanzaemon was appointed Magistrate of the Reconstruction, but got only a very small portion of all that money.

He hired the local farmers for hard labour and payed them a small fee to survive.

After clearing the rivers, they all helped out to remove the lava gravel from the fields.
Just shoveling to the side would not do, since huge piles of lava on the four sides were hindering the normal field work and reduced the open space drastically.
So they began to "turn the earth upside down", (tenchigaeshi 天地返し . turning heaven and earth upside down), a kind of very deep ploughing.
After first digging a huge deep hole, they moved part of the nearby lava gravel into the hole, covering the last 70 cm with fresh earth appearing below the lava.
The new hole was first filled with lava, then covered with the dug-up earth.
And so on digging holes side by side. . . to be seen to our day in a museum part.

To feed the starving farmers after more than two years of hardship and not much support from the Bakufu government, Hanzaemon finally decided to open the rice storage of the Bakufu and distributed the food to the poor.
To pay for this "crime", he had to commit seppuku suicide, or so the legend tells us.

The villagers built the first small shrine to honor him in 1867.

The children of Subashiri village perform a simple drama at the local school to our day, recalling the hardships of their ancestors and helping hand of Hanzaemon.
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This shrine was first build in 1867.



Statue of Hanzaemon at Ina shrine .
It was moved here from Gotenba in 1989, made by 堤達男氏.

The main festival of the shrine is in Spring and Autumn.
source : kansubasiri/inajinja.htm


Ina Hanzaemon had been working for the Edo Bakufu government,
supervising the building of the Eitai Bridge in 1698 永代橋.
the land reclaiming efforts around Fukagawa in 1700 深川埋め立て
building a dam in Edo Honjo in 1704 江戸本所堤防
waterway regulation of the Asakusa River in 1705 浅草川治水

When Mount Fuji erupted he was maybe the only person with such a wide range of experience and was sent to the region as a bugyoo 奉行 magistrate.

sunayoke kawazarai bugyoo 砂除川浚奉行 magistrate to clean the rivers.
to get the vulcanic debris out of the riverbed before the rainy season started and overflowing would threaten the land beyond. Cleaning a riverbed was followed by strengthening the dams and river banks to avoid flooding.
In the region, more than 60 villages had already been given up by the local government and the villagers had to fight for themselves to survive in the rubble.

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Mount Fuji - Hōei eruption　宝永
The latest eruption, in 1707 (the 4th year of the Hōei era), was known as the great Hōei eruption. It followed several weeks after the Great Hōei earthquake:

November 11, 1707 (Hōei 4, 14th day of the 10th month):
The city of Osaka suffers tremendously because of a very violent earthquake.

December 16, 1707 (Hōei 4, 23nd day of the 11th month):
An eruption of Mt. Fuji; the cinders and ash fell like rain in Izu, Kai, Sagami, and Musashi. This eruption was remarkable in that it spread a vast amount of volcanic ash and scoria over a region as far away as Edo.


Hoei-crater of Mount Fuji

Records of eruption
Sixteen eruptions of New Fuji have been recorded since 781. Many of the eruptions occurred in the Heian era, with twelve eruptions between 800 and 1083. Sometimes inactive periods between eruptions lasted for hundreds of years, as in the period between 1083 and 1511, when no eruptions were recorded for over 400 years. At present, there have been no eruptions since the Hoei eruption in 1707-1708, around 300 years ago.

Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami much attention was given to the volcanic reaction of Mt. Fuji. Experts have found that the internal pressure of the Mt. Fuji Lava Chamber has increased to 1.6 megapascals.
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Earthquake Country

. Japan after the BIG earthquake - March 11, 2011 .

tenchigaeshi - maybe a method to cope with the salty fields in the Tohoku region after the huge tsunami?


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. Kaido 街道 The Highways of Japan .

. Akayama Kaido 赤山街道 Akayama Highway "Red Mountain" .

To promote the development of the Kanto region, Ina Hanzaemon built three roads to distribute material and people.
1 大宮道 Omiya Michi
2 越谷道 Koshigaya Michi
3 千住道 Senju Michi

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