Sashino Shrine - Ishioka

[Yanxi-style inner shrine] Tohoku country Shinji-gun Sashineng shrine

The deity is Prince Toyokiirihiko, and Prince Hikosashima and Takeru Nihon are enshrined. The god of worship was the prince of the 10th Emperor Sujin, and as the Shoguns of the Four Provinces, he passed away during the demise of the crown of Togoku, and the Maruyama tumulus adjacent to the west was buried as Okutsu Castle. Our company was subsequently founded by the decree in the 32nd Emperor Sushun (587). In the Middle Ages, it was also called Shiratori Myojin and Takatomo Myojin, but Swan is probably from Yamato Takeru, and Takatomo is probably from the old place name. In addition, our company is a theory company of Engishiki (small) company "Sashino Shrine, Niihari-gun, Hitachi", and there are other candidates for the theory company, and it is Someya "Sashino Shrine" that is enshrined in the city.・ Murakami "Sashino Shrine" and Kasama City "Sashino Shrine", but Ishioka City is now in the category of Niihari District, but it was Ibaraki County in the Engishiki era, so it is influential. There is no place. From the narrow alley of the lower village, go up the stone steps from the first torii gate, cross the narrow road, and as soon as you climb the stone steps from the second torii gate, you will reach the wide precincts surrounded by the guardian forest. The precincts were lined with stone monuments and stone Buddha statues with various eras from the Edo period, and in the back was a small hall of worship (which seems to have been rebuilt in relatively recent years). The main shrine in the back was a covered house like the Yasato region, and only a part of the roof of the main shrine colored in vermilion could be seen from the middle. It is such a sanctuary where you can feel the eternal history.

Visit 2021.5.2. It is a satoyama shrine surrounded by Sudajii and other giant trees. There was a big Sudajii in a place a little away from the precincts, and there was also a small shrine at the base.

The 10th Emperor Sujin, who is believed to have existed in the latter half of the 3rd century, is the prince of the Emperor, and has received the imperial rule of the eastern government, and has ruled Mao-no-Kuni. The Maruyama burial mound on the hill of Maruyama hill is said to be the burial mound of Irihiko Toyojo's burial mound. There is Sashina Shrine. Is it a coincidence that Hitachi Kokufu is located at the end of the straight line that connects Kakioka Sashina Shrine on the side of the old burial mound and Someya Sashina Shrine on the hillside of Ryujin? It seems to me that Koji, who took over the ancestor of the Yamato dynasty's eastern reign in the early Kofun period, in a later generation.