Aguchi Jinja, in Kai-cho-Higashi, Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka, is the chief tutelary shrine of Sakai and has long been affectionately known as "Otera-san" by local residents. The principal deities are Shiotsuchi-no-Oji, Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and Ikukunitama-no-Mikoto, venerated for maritime safety, commercial prosperity, and matchmaking. Tradition holds that Empress Jingu enshrined Shiotsuchi-no-Oji …
Tradition places the founding of Aguchi Jinja in the era of Empress Jingu, who is said to have enshrined Shiotsuchi-no-Oji here on her return from the Korean campaigns — making it an ancient shrine venerated from antiquity as a guardian of the Sakai harbor and a place of prayer for safe navigation. …
Finding a partner, romantic success, marital harmony. Famed at Izumo Taisha, Jishu-jinja, and Kawagoe Hikawa.
Derived from the enshrined deity "塩土老翁神・素盞嗚尊・生国魂命"
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