Kuragano Shrine - Takasaki

It is a shrine with a very beautiful precinct. The main carving was also wonderful. Unfortunately, it was disappointing because it was the day after the annual festival, but the red stamp was written.

Old Nakasendo, Kuragano used to be a post town ✨ Every year, there is a festival on April 19th and October 19th ? The music of the Taiga Kagura is very nice ✨ Stroll to the back of the main shrine Please look at it ? It is recommended to enjoy the feeling of bathing in the forest because there is a lot of green ? It is one of the fun to see the fresh green alone and carefully see the structure of the main shrine ? I thought I should have been a shrine maiden here ❣

Priest deity: Great soul Okami (mostly wolf). Founding: Sujin Emperor 48 (shaden). An old shrine whose name is "Five ranks above Daikokutama Myojin" in the Ueno Kunigami list. The old company name is Iitama Shrine. Renamed as Oguni Soul Shrine in the Meiji era, In the same year, it was renamed Kuragano Shrine by merging several neighboring companies. Our common name is Iitama-sama. Iitama Shrine considers the relationship with Mr. Naba (Nawa-gun, Ueno Province), but the name of Mr. Namba does not appear from Iitama Shrine in Kuragano, which is in Gunma-gun. Considering this in our transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern times, 5125 years old (1253) Mr. Kuragano's founder Saburo Kuragano Takatoshi built the shrine. After that, rebuilding and restoration of the shrine was repeated as a deity of Mr. Kuragano. Mr. Kuragano established the important point, Kuragano Castle, on the northern cliff of Karasugawa, as a sequel to the Kodama Party, one of the samurai groups known as the Musashi Seven Party. 1386: Saburo Kuragano Saemon Satoru Masakatsusha, erected, Nagaroku 2 (1458) Kuragano Mikawamori Administration Company, erected, Eiroku 2 (1559) Kanai Awajimori Shrine, restored. There is no name for Mr. Nawa (discontinued in the Azuchi-Momoyama period), It is said that "Iitama Enki," which is our company's traditional treasure, has existed since the early Edo period, and it has almost the same contents as "Shinto Shu" "Ueno Kuni Naha Hachiro Daimei Shinji". , I can consider the relationship with Hachiro Naba Daimyojin (Iitama Daimyojin), In the Edo period, the company was called Iitama Daimyojin/Iitama Shrine, and it is said that it was revered as a general guardian of Kuragano-juku (Takasaki clan) on the Nakasendo, which prospered as a highway, and neighboring Shichigago. There is. Although the former personality of our company is unknown, there is also a shrine office where priests are stationed (giving place for bills and amulets), and it is a shrine that feels a certain size.

Kuragano Shrine, which was an important post town where Nakasendo and Nikko Reiheishi Kaido intersect, is still a shrine with a large site and a long history. The main shrine is also designated as a cultural property of Takasaki City, and you can see the splendid wooden decoration. There is also a Kagura hall and a gathering hall in the precincts, and it can be said that it was a shrine with a certain style. In addition, there are many precincts such as Dosojin, Daikokuten, and Kanmuriinari Daimyojin, and small rice fields for offerings called Shinkoda are also grown in the precincts.

The precincts were very beautiful The sculpture in the main shrine is very nice I couldn't find the owl and the hawk I have searched

The god of ritual is Okunitama Okami (ﾟ д ﾟ)! The main shrine of the head office was in the upper building in 1865. Miyaji-san has a very high degree of education (ﾟ д ﾟ)!

It's the new year, so I prayed to avoid evil. It was a visit to a historic shrine.