葛窪神明社
Kuzukubo, Sakai, Fujimi Town, Suwa District
Shimmeisha Shrine is located in the Kuzukubo district of Fujimi Town, near the Yamanashi prefectural border.
During the Sengoku period, it was a battleground between the Kai Takeda clan and the Suwa clan.
The shrine is situated in a scenic spot, offering views of Yatsugatake to the east and the entire Fujimi Town area to the west.
Next to the shrine stands a large hip-and-gable roofed dance pavilion, and a large Shimmei-style torii gate with kashira wood decorates the approach.
The shrine building, surrounded by four sacred pillars, consists of a gabled-roofed worship hall with a covering structure behind it housing the main shrine.
The interior is dark, preventing a clear view of the main shrine from outside, but the scale of the covering structure and the presence of two doors suggest that it houses two main shrines.
This assumption is supported by the 1908 merger with the Kumano Shrine, the guardian deity of the former Enmiyama village.
Location | Kuzukubo, Sakai, Fujimi Town, Suwa District |
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Website | None |
Deity | Amaterasu Omikami |
Main Shrine | Late Edo period |
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Master Carpenter | Shiratori Yashiro |