Kiji Shrine in Higashi-Gotanda enshrines Yamato Takeru no Mikoto. Its unusual name comes from the story that the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, while falconing in this area, spotted a white pheasant (kiji) and commanded the shrine be named 'Kiji-miya.' Situated on a rise in Gotanda's Higashi district, it has served as the local tutelary deity since the Edo period. A stone monument commemorating Ie…

The founding date of Kiji Shrine is not clearly recorded, but it is traditionally held to be an ancient shrine long enshrined at its current location, dedicated to Yamato Takeru no Mikoto. The origin of its distinctive name is widely attributed to an episode from the early Edo period: the third Toku…