A Myojin Taisha shrine where Empress Jingu is said to have enshrined Kotoshironushi — one of Kobe's three great shrines, popularly known as "Nagata-san," deity of good fortune
Nagata Jinja, in Nagata-cho, Nagata Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo, is an ancient shrine that, with Ikuta Jinja and Minatogawa Jinja, forms the "Three Shrines of Kobe." The principal deity is Kotoshironushi (Ebisu), widely venerated as the god of commerce and prosperity. Tradition holds that Empress Jingu, on her return from the Korean campaigns, received an oracle to enshrine Kotoshironushi at Nagata — t…
The Nihon Shoki records the founding of Nagata Jinja in the first year of Empress Jingu's regency (around 201 CE), when an oracle directed her to "enshrine Kotoshironushi-no-Mikoto in the Nagata-no-kuni of his heart." The shrine was built at Nagata in Mukogun. Hirota Jinja in Nishinomiya, Ikuta Jinj…
Flourishing trade, new-shop openings, successful deals. A central prayer at Inari and Ebisu shrines.
Derived from the enshrined deity "事代主神"
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