Tamasaki Shrine

Tamasaki Jinja 玉前神社
Haiden of Tamasaki Shrine
Information
Dedicated to	Tamayori-hime no mikoto
Founded	unknown
Address	3048 Ichinomiya, Ichinomiya-machi, Chosei-gun, Chiba
Website	www.tamasaki.org
Glossary of Shinto

Tamasaki Jinja (玉前神社) is a Shinto shrine in the town of Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of former Kazusa Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on September 13, and features kagura performances, which are listed as an Intangible Cultural Property of Chiba Prefecture^[1]

Enshrined kami

The main kami of Tamasaki Jinja are the male Tamasaki no kami (玉埼神), who is identified with Ugayafukiaezu-no-Mikoto and the female Tamayori-hime no mikoto ( 玉依姫命); the parents of Emperor Jimmu.

History

The origins of Tamasaki Jinja are unknown. The shrine is located in an area of the Bōsō Peninsula with a favorable climate, which has been settled since at least the Jōmon period. Shell middens and burial mounds are common in the area. The shrine is mentioned as the ichinomiya of Kazusa Province in the Engishiki records from the early Heian period. However, repeated fires and other disasters over the centuries have destroyed all of the old shrine records and buildings. The shrine was burned down in 1562 during a battle involving the Satomi clan and was rebuilt by the Satomi in 1587. Additional structures were donated by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1591 and the shrine reconstructed in 1678. During the Meiji period era of State Shinto, the shrine was rated as a Kokuhei Chūsha (国幣中社). ^[2]

Cultural Properties

Bronze Mirror, Kamakura period, National Important Cultural Property

References

Plutschow, Herbe. Matsuri: The Festivals of Japan. RoutledgeCurzon (1996) ISBN 1-873410-63-8
Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887

Notes

↑ Plutschow. Matsuri: The Festivals of Japan. Page 173
↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, pp. 125.

Coordinates: 35°22′33.75″N 140°21′37.75″E / 35.3760417°N 140.3604861°E / 35.3760417; 140.3604861

Shinto shrines

Shinto architecture

Buildings	chōzuya or temizuya haiden heiden hokora honden / shinden / shōden kagura-den massha sessha

Architectonic elements	Chinjusha chigi hidden roof kaerumata: see nakazonae kairō karahafu karamon katōmado katsuogi ken kentozuka: see nakazonae kitsune (fox) komainu mon nakazonae sandō shōrō sōrin tamagaki tokyō torii tōrō

Styles	hirairi-zukuri tsumairi-zukuri gongen-zukuri hachiman-zukuri hiyoshi-zukuri irimoya-zukuri ishi-no-ma-zukuri kasuga-zukuri kibitsu-zukuri misedana-zukuri nagare-zukuri ōtori-zukuri owari-zukuri ryōnagare-zukuri shinmei-zukuri sumiyoshi-zukuri taisha-zukuri

Others

Implements	An ema gohei hakama jōe kamidana mikoshi ofuda omamori ōnusa saisen shaku shide shimenawa shintai tamagushi tamaya

Main kami	Amaterasu Hachiman Inari Ōkami Tenjin

Staff	kannushi miko

Head shrines¹	Fushimi Inari Taisha Usa Hachiman-gū Ise Grand Shrine Dazaifu Tenman-gū Munakata Taisha Suwa Taisha Hiyoshi Taisha Kumano Nachi Taisha Tsushima Shrine Yasaka Shrine

Miscellaneous	A-un Glossary of Shinto jingū-ji Jinja Honchō miyadera

¹ (in order of the size of the shrine network they head)

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