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Shrine founded as demon-gate protection for Sakura Castle, visited by successive domain lords across the Edo period
20 min walk from Keisei Sakura Station
Jonai-cho, Sakura, Chiba
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Iseyama Shrine in Sakura City enshrines Amaterasu Omikami, transferred from Ise Jingu, as its principal deity. Founded as a demon-gate protection for Sakura Castle, it has a history of guarding both the castle and the town. It is a prestigious shrine that successive Sakura lords visited, and the renovation of the shrine buildings was carried out with domain funds. The castle ruins can be seen from…
Iseyama Shrine is traditionally said to have been founded when Sakura Castle was constructed from 1610 under Doi Toshikatsu, who transferred the spirit of Amaterasu Omikami from Ise Jingu to serve as a guardian against the demon gate (kimon, the inauspicious north-eastern direction) of the castle. D…
Cleansing impurity, spiritual purification, driving away evil. Rooted in misogi ablutions and goma fire rites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "天照大御神"
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