Tokumori Shrine

Tokumori Shrine is a shrine located in Miyawaki-cho, Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture. General guardian of the Tsuyama clan. Its status is a prefectural shrine, and it is currently loved by parishioners as the guardian deity of the Tsuyama city area. == Enshrined God == The following six deities are enshrined. Main enshrined deity Amaterasu Omikami Others Kunijotachi-no-son, Izanagi-son, Tsukuyomi-son, Honda Betsuson Ishikoridomekami == History == === Founding === According to the shrine's legend, it was founded in 733. The shrine was originally located in what is now Odanaka, Tsuyama City, but in 1539 a fire destroyed the shrine and all its treasures. In the 8th year of Keicho (1603), Mori Tadamasa, who entered Mimasaka Province as the lord of the 186,500 koku province, built Tsuyama Castle, and in the following year 9 (1604), he moved it to its current location and made it the general guardian of Tsuyama Castle. The current shrine building was rebuilt in 1664 by Mori Nagatsugu, the second lord of the domain. It was ranked as a prefectural shrine in 1895. The parishioner is the largest shrine in Sakushu, covering 56 towns in the center of Tsuyama City.