Gochiinari Shrine - Akishima

Preparation for the festival

There is a facility called a company office on the right side of the torii gate.

The god of worship is Uda's soul life. Founding year is astronomical year 1532-1555. The grounds are quite wide, It was refreshing in a good atmosphere. There is a park.

It is a shrine with no change, but it is the location where the movie “20th Century Boys” was filmed. I also played at this shrine like them when I was a kid. It seems that this shrine was originally a small ridge near the Maruyama field that went 100 meters east of here. It may have been moved here to become a local god. Is the small bag next to the main shrine a remnant? In the old days, there were floats at the festival in August, and there was a lot of lions, but now there are no floats and the lions are gone. As a remnant, large drums and small drums are stored in the Miyagi district club. Previously, at the time of the 2nd noon, people who danced Noh from Komiya or Ninomiya came to have dedicated Noh. It seems that it was a lot of fun when there was little entertainment. When the Noh performers stopped coming, they enjoyed doing amateur performances by themselves. It seems that in the local area, when it rained in the summer without rain, a rain ritual was held. I don't remember it well because my father used to say it, but he said that he stood like a spear and burned the fire and chanted the congratulatory words. There is a big stone in the shrine, and it is said to be a “stone for strength comparison”. A long time ago, when there was little entertainment, young villagers played this stone by lifting it up and comparing it. By the way, old people call the local Inari Shrine "Omiya". Next to the main shrine is a large zelkova tree that is over 400 years old and has a trunk area of ​​7 meters. In 1946, Yuzo Morita pruned the zelkova tree's bumps and branches, and the carpenter's Miyazaki Master made a money box with that material and dedicated it on October 17. At the time of the Isewan Typhoon in 1959, the strong zelkova broke from the middle due to a strong wind, and the main shrine of the palace was directly hit and collapsed. There is a picture right after that at home but it is completely destroyed. Before the big zelkova broke, it was a very tall tree, so it seemed that you could see the big zelkova from around Tokoji Temple on the foot of the shore of the Tama River. Now, the inside of the tree is hollow and can't be enclosed by a fence, but when I was a kid, I went inside and played.

This shrine, whose deity is Ukanomitama's soul, was designated by the Meiji government as the only donation shrine in the village in May 1890. It has a history of being dedicated. Although the date of its foundation is not clear, it was solicited around the astronomical year (1532-1554) due to the relationship with the neighboring Hozumiji Temple, and was rebuilt in 1615. It is reported that it was. The hometown of the early Edo period is a village inside and outside the 30 houses, even from the past books left at Hozumiji Temple, so the reconstruction during the Genna period can be regarded as a small shrine. It is unclear what happened after that, but it seems that the shrine was in good shape at the end of the early modern period, as described in "Shinpen Musashi Fudokisho" as "small shrine". On the ceiling of the hall of worship, a dragon in all directions and two celestial maidens were drawn on the left and right, and there was a decoration written as "Kaei Nirou Midwinter Kurebayashi Ryozan", but it seems that the reconstruction was done around this time. .. After that, it was remodeled in 1945, but the current Inari Shrine was rebuilt in September 1957 because a large branch of zelkova collapsed and the shrine collapsed during the typhoon in September 1959. ..