Sanyasu Shrine - Maizuru

It seems that the former guardian shrine of Maizuru Navy Hospital was ordered to be removed by the US military after the defeat of World War II, and the priest of this shrine at that time was decided to accept and relocated. Please refer to the history book of the company head for details.

Sanyasu Shrine is located in the eastern part of Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture. It is the precincts of Iyatogimube Shrine (Omori Shrine) in a residential area along Shiratori Dori in Mori, Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture. Saijin Amaterasu Omikami The precincts are neatly organized, with stones, information boards, torii gates, chozuya, lanterns, and the main shrine. It was a shrine that was enshrined in May 1941 by soliciting the spirit of Amaterasu Omikami from Ise Jingu as the guardian deity of the former Maizuru Navy Hospital in Gyozui, but it moved to the inside of Omori Shrine after the end of the war. Every October, we hold an autumn festival by San'ankai and others. The following is the information board in the precincts "Sanyasu Shrine" Sanyasu Shrine was a shrine enshrined as the guardian deity of the former Maizuru Navy Hospital. With the relocation of Kitasui Tsutsujigaoka to Yukinaga in 1945, the Navy Hospital solicited the spirit of Amaterasu Omikami from Ise Jingu on the mountain in the eastern part of the new hospital, and on Navy Day on May 27, 1945. We had a seating festival. The relocation and expansion work of the hospital began around 1945, and the bridge over the Yohoro River was completed at the end of 2015. Chiaki Imokawa, Generalstabsarzt of the Navy, who was the director of the hospital at the time, wrote the song "The people who cross this chopsticks are at ease, at ease, and at home." In rare cases, the name "Sanyasu" became the name of the shrine of the guardian deity of the hospital. Sanyasu Shrine ended the war more than two years after the Shinmei-zukuri shrine was built, and the US military stationed there ordered the removal of the shrine from the premises. Takeo Tanaka, the priest of the Yi Shrine, who served the company's enshrined shrine, called on the people involved in Yukinaga Mori to say, "Then, let's move to the precincts of our company." rice field. It is extremely rare for a shrine of the former Navy Hospital to be enshrined in a private shrine. By the way, Sanyasu Shrine has not had a regular festival since it moved to Yakagi no Mori, and it has continued to this day. I'm fine in this situation. The Sanyasu Shrine Festival was held on October 20, 2001 in consultation with the Minami Maizuru no Kai, the Iyatogimube Shrine Guji Tanaka, and the Omori Shrine Supporters' Association, and every October thereafter, it was held as an autumn festival. I am. During the festival, the shrine building, which has been 65 years since it was enshrined in 1943, has become extremely old. It was renovated in the fall of the year. October 2006 Yoshiday (Photo taken on 12/18/2021)