Hikawa Shrine - Hokota

Ruins of Kamata Castle It was closed in 2019 Located in the school grounds of Iwata City Shingu Elementary School

The deity of the festival is Susano. According to the origin monument of the precincts, it was originally used as the god of Kitsuki Taisha (this is Izumo Taisha) that sits on the Izumo country ice river, and in 1669, the Musashi Kuniichinomiya (now Saitama city). It was said that it was solicited from Hikawa Shrine. Originally, it was the main building of the Yota castle, which draws the flow of Mr. Ogura, but Yoshinobu Satake's "Putting of the Sansan 33 Sankan" killed the castle owner, Yota, and immediately afterwards, he was attacked by a large army of Satake. Although it is a thorough battle, it is a castle. It became the flag territory in the Edo period, and the lord, Watanabe, was solicited for Hikawa Shrine in Omiya. In the Meiji era, it became the site of the Shingu (normal) elementary school and became a rare elementary school where a shrine was settled in the schoolyard, but Shingu Elementary School was closed in 2019, and now it is just engraved on the old school building, gymnasium, playground equipment of the schoolyard. The illusory memories of the entrapped children gradually dissipate. I accessed the gymnasium side and the schoolyard from the narrow slope on the north side, but apparently this is a back door. The first torii gate from the south side in front of the schoolyard. I walked along the approach to the side of the colorful tires, and there was Nino Torii on the left, and a magnificent shrine.