Kubo Hachimangū

Kubohachimangu Shrine is a shrine located in Higashi Ward, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture. The old company rank was Gosha. == Enshrined God == === Main Hall === Shinada Wake no Mikoto (Emperor Ojin) Obihime no Mikoto (Empress Jingu) Emperor Chuai Izanagi Mikoto Inana Mikoto === Aiden === Hime Okami == Company history == Founded on August 23, 859. 1873 - Ranked as a Gosha. 1910 - Designated as a shrine offering offerings to the gods. 1913 - According to the Shinto Shrine Consolidation Ordinance, Murasha Hachimangu Shrine of Sairyuji Temple and Murasha Hachimangu Shrine of Fukuji Honmura were enshrined and became the current enshrined deity. == Origin == According to legend, during the era of the 58th Emperor Seiwa, Fujii Samanoshin Hiroshiki, a feudal lord of the Shonai region of Kamimichi Gunkubo in Bizen Province, who believed in Usa Jingu in Buzen Province and visited it every year, became old and unable to visit the shrine, so he prayed to the god Hachiman in his territory and devoted himself to worshiping. Therefore, he built a shrine on the site of Wakamiya, the guardian deity in Kuboshonai, and on August 23, 859, he asked the monk Gyokyo of Daian-ji Temple in Nara to invite Usa Jingu, which is enshrined in Buzen Province, to be revered as Kubo Hachimangu Shrine and made it the guardian deity of the people of Hiroki and Kuboshonai. After this, it is said that rituals began to be performed with the deity that had been enshrined as the main deity, and Wakamiya as a separate shrine. In ancient times, it was counted as one of the four major shrines in Bizen Province (Kibitsuhiko Shrine, Okayama Shrine, Yasuhito Shrine, and Kubo Hachiman Shrine), and was visited and donated by generations of feudal lords and wealthy merchants. It is recorded that Takauji Ashikaga, the first shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, visited Kubo Hachimangu Shrine during his stay in Fukuoka, Bizen Province, and donated over 20 towns of fields as shrine territory.