Funakata Shrine - Kita City

good atmosphere

A shrine near Arakawa Yuen. The new signboard is written as Funakata Shrine, but Ugata Shrine is traditional. Although there are not many, there is a sacred and quiet atmosphere surrounded by trees.

It is a rare shrine with a brick portable shrine. There used to be a large brick factory around here because the soil of the Sumida River, which flows right next to it, was suitable for making bricks. Since the portable shrine says "Dedication Hirooka Ikujiro", it seems to be a brick from the Hirooka brick factory that used to be nearby. There was also a magnificent brick wall house nearby. A stone monument called Twelve Devas was erected at the shrine. There is also an athletic children's amusement park right next to the precincts, and I was able to go straight to the Sumida River promenade.

There is a guardian dog dedicated to the Meiji era. There is also a toilet in the adjacent park.

Twelve Devas of Funakata Shrine Funakata Shrine, the guardian of Funakata Village, was located in a dense forest during the Edo period and was called the Twelve Devas Forest. The twelve devas and the stone monument carved in the fence on the right side of the main shrine were built based on the following tradition. Once upon a time, Kiyomitsu Toyoshima, the lord of the manor in this area, was not blessed with children and prayed to the gods of Kumano Gongen to receive a princess. As an adult, he married Adachi Shosuke, but the princess who received a heartless treatment threw herself into the Iruma River (= Arakawa), and it is said that the twelve maids also sank after the princess. It is in. Twelve Devas refers to these twelve maids and at the same time refers to the gods such as Taishakuten. In esoteric Buddhism, esoteric Buddhism was held at altars such as mounds to requiesca the people who died unemployed as gods who protect the world. The Kumano faith, which is deeply linked to esoteric Buddhism, was also enshrined in various parts of the country from the end of the Heian period to the Muromachi period, but the Kumano faith In the thriving villages of the Arakawa basin, the local tradition of sad samurai women was linked to the esoteric Buddhism of the Twelve Devas and the Kumano faith, and it can be said that it was enshrined as the Twelve Devas of Funakata Village. This folklore was auspicious in the Edo period by the temple of the Roku Amida pilgrimage. However, the tradition that it was not the princess of Kiyomitsu but the princess of Adachi Shoji who sank in Arakawa, the appearance of a person who did not exist in the father of the princess, and the setting of the era of the tradition are different from the high priest of the Nara period. It has a strong association, such as the appearance of Gyoki, and the content of the auspices is conveyed slightly differently depending on the temple.

A local shrine, which is quite an interesting precinct

Funakata village guardian (part of the present Kita Ward moat and Nishikawa Hisashi Arakawa Ward) What I was surprised to visit during the cherry blossom season at the end of March was that Ginkgo Ginnan was left in such an amount I had never seen before. Of course, it will be a find, a natural fruit, and it should not be picked up by anyone who is not a landowner, but it is rare that it is no mark so far.