Yahiko Shrine
Yahiko Shrine | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Shinto |
Deity | Ame-no-Kaguyama-no-Mikoto |
Festival | February 2 |
Type | Ichinomiya |
Location | |
Location | Yahiko, Niigata, Japan |
Geographic coordinates | 37°42′23.7″N 138°49′33.9″E / 37.706583°N 138.826083°E |
Website | |
Official website | |
Glossary of Shinto |
Yahiko jinja (
The shrine is located within Sado-Yahiko-Yoneyama Quasi-National Park and is on the eastern base of Mount Yahiko,[4] a 634-meter sacred mountain which forms the shintai of the shrine.
Enshrined kami
[edit]The kami enshrined at Yahiko Jinja is:
- Ame-no-Kaguyama-no-mikoto (
天 香山 命 )
History
[edit]The foundation date of Yahiko Shrine is unknown, but the shrine dates to prehistoric times as it is referred to as "ancient" in a poem even in the Nara period Man'yōshū. Per the shrine's legend, Ame-no-Kaguyama-no-mikoto landed from the heavens at Nozumihama (in what is now the city of Nagaoka) and taught local people about industries such as fishing, salt production, rice cultivation, and sericulture.[3][5] He was later enshrined on Mount Yahiko as the kami who founded Echigo. He also was recorded in the Kojiki as having performed a bugaku dance at the coronation of Emperor Jimmu. Ame-no-Kaguyama-no-mikoto is also claimed to be the ancestor of the Owari Kuni no miyatsuko and it is more than likely that the shrine legend and tradition confuses this kami with Prince Ohiko (
The shrine is mentioned in and entry for 833 AD in Shoku Nihon Kōki and per the same source, the shrine was awarded the rank of Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (
During the Edo period, the daimyō of Takada Domain, Matsudaira Tadateru granted the shrine estates with a kokudaka of 500 koku for its upkeep/ During the Edo Period, the kokugaku scholar Hirata Atsutane claimed that the shrine had preserved in Jindai moji, predating the introduction of Chinese-based kanji, but that these records had been lost in a fire.
After the Meiji restoration and the establishment of State Shinto, the shrine was designated a National shrine, 2nd rank (
The shrine is located a 15-minute walk from Yahiko Station on the JR East Yahiko Line.[8]
Gallery
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Mount Yahiko
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Torii
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Tobashira Jinja Shaden
Cultural Properties
[edit]Important Cultural Properties
[edit]- Tobashira Jinja Shaden (
十 柱 神社 社殿 ), Edo Period, completed in 1694. This is a sub-shrine located within the precincts of the Yahiko Jinja with a thatched nagare-zukuri roof. It was designated as a National Important Cultural Property in 1917.[9]
- Ōdachi (
大 太刀 ), Muromachi period, dated 1415, blade length of 220.4 cm. [10]
- Tetsu Bussho-bachi (
鉄 仏 餉鉢), Kamakura period, dated 1326[11]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2; retrieved 2012-3-13.
- ^ Shibuya, Nobuhiro (2015). Shokoku jinja Ichinomiya Ninomiya San'nomiya (in Japanese). Yamakawa shuppansha. ISBN 978-4634150867.
- ^ a b "About Yahiko Shrine - Niigata Travel Guide | Planetyze". Planetyze. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
- ^ Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), "Mt. Yahiko Area"; retrieved 2012-10-24.
- ^ JNTO, "Yahiko-jinja Shrine"; Kotodamaya.com, "Yahiko Jinja"; retrieved 2012-10-24.
- ^ Yoshiki, Emi (2007). Zenkoku 'Ichinomiya' tettei gaido (in Japanese). PHP Institute. ISBN 978-4569669304.
- ^ a b Yahiko Village website, "Sightseeing Information--Yahiko Shrine" Archived 2016-11-13 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-10-24.
- ^ Okada, Shoji (2014). Taiyō no chizuchō 24 zenkoku 'Ichinomiya' meguri (in Japanese). Heibonsha. ISBN 978-4582945614.
- ^ "
弥彦 神社 境内 末社 十 柱 神社 社殿 " [Yahiko jinja keidai massha Tobashira Jinja Shaden] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved August 20, 2020. - ^ "
大 太刀 〈銘 南無 正 八幡大菩薩右恵門烝家盛/南無 唵麾利 支 天 源 定重 応 永 廿 二 年 十 二 月 日 〉" [Ōdachi <signed Sho-Hachiman Daibosatsu Uemon-no-jo Iemori / Nasu Marishaten Minamoto no Sadashige Ōe Nijuni-nen, Junigatsu-hi>] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved August 20, 2020. - ^ "
鉄 仏 餉鉢〉" [Tetsu Bussho-bachi <] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
External links
[edit]Media related to Iyahiko-jinja at Wikimedia Commons
- Official home page (in Japanese)
- Niigata Prefecture Kanko Navi (in Japanese)