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Sekiyama Shrine in Myoko City is an ancient shrine…
About 15 min walk from Echigo Tokimeki Railway Sekiyama Station
4671 Sekiyama, Myoko, Niigata
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Sekiyama Shrine in Myoko City is an ancient shrine revered by the people of Echigo as the head shrine of Mt. Myoko worship. Taking Mt. Myoko as its sacred divine body (shintai), it enshrines Sekiyama Daigongen, worshipped as the deity of fire and thunder. It has also developed from ancient times as a sacred site of shugendo (mountain asceticism), and in the Heian and Kamakura periods was a center …
The center of Mt. Myoko worship, said to have been opened by Gyoki in the Nara period. In the Heian period it flourished as a sacred site of shugendo, and also received the deep veneration of warrior clans. In the Edo period it occupied a position akin to the head temple of shugendo within Echigo Pr…
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Derived from the enshrined deity "伊弉諾命・日本武尊・関山大権現"
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