Kumano Shrine

Kumano Shrine is a Kumano Shrine located in the Gonai district of Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. It is called ``Japan's First Kumano Twelve Shrines Gongengu''. The deities enshrined are Izana-mi-kami, Izana-gi-kami, Ieto-miko-kami, and Hayatama-no-otokogami. The main shrine buildings are similar to Kumano Hongu Taisha, with the third shrine, first shrine, second shrine, fourth shrine, fifth shrine, and sixth shrine from the left. == Overview == In the third year of Emperor Bunmu (699), Yaku Ozumi, who is said to be the founder of Shugendo, was prosecuted by the imperial court and was hidden in Kumano Hongu, but was exiled to Izu Oshima (Shoku Nihongi). According to the shrine's legend, on this occasion, five of his disciples, including Yoshinaga, Gigen, Yoshizane, Jugen, and Hogen, dedicated the deity of Kumano Hongu Taisha Shrine. They wandered all over the place for three years, and in March 701, when Yakushozuno was pardoned, it is said that they received an oracle and relocated Kishu Kumano Hongu to its current location. In 740, Emperor Shomu donated the entire area of ​​Kojima as the territory of Kumano Shrine. In the 5th year of Tenpyoji (761), a shrine similar to Kishu Kumano (Juunisha Gongengu Shrine) was built, and a new shrine was built in nearby Kimi, and Nachigu Shrine (currently Yuka Shrine Main Shrine, Rendaiji Temple) was built in Yamamura, making it the New Kumano Sanzan. It flourished as a religious facility that combined Kumano Shrine and a Shugendo temple in the form of a syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism, but it declined from the mid-Heian period onward.