 is a Shinto shrine in the Miyasumiyoshi neighborhood of the city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is the "ichinomiya" of former Nagato Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on December 15. Along with the more famous Sumiyoshi-taisha in Osaka and the Sumiyoshi Jinja in Fukuoka, it is one of the "Three Great Sumiyoshi" shrines; however whereas the Osaka Sumitomo-taisha enshrines the "Nigi-Mitama", or placid spirit of the Sumiyoshi "kami", the shrine in Shimonoseki enshrines the "Ara-Mitama", or rough spirit of the "kami".
Enshrined "kami".
The "kami" enshrined at Sumiyoshi Jinja are:
History.
The origins of Itakiso Jinja are unknown. Per the "Nihon Shoki", when the legendary Empress Jingū embarked on her conquest of the Korean Peninsula, she entrusted the Sumitomo sanjin to protect her passage across the ocean. En route back to Japan, she had a message from the gods that their oracle was to be found in Nagato Province, where a shrine should be built. The shrine first appears in the historical record in an entry dated 859 in the "Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku". In the 927 "Engishiki" it is listed as a and is called the "ichinomiya" of the province. The shrine was worshipped by the military classes and as a guardian of maritime traffic. From the Kamakura period, it received donations from successive shogun, including Minamoto no Yoritomo. Although the shrine declined in the Muromachi period, during the Sengoku and Edo Periods it was patronized by the Ōuchi clan and the Mōri clan, "daimyō" of Chōshū Domain.
After the Meiji Restoration, it was listed as a in 1871, and promoted to a in 1911.
The shrine is located a twenty-minute walk from Shin-Shimonoseki Station on the Sanyo Shinkansen.
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