Shinmei-sha in Takamikozu, Shimotsuma, is an Ise faith shrine enshrining Amaterasu Omikami and is venerated as the guardian deity of bountiful harvests and household safety. The founding date is unknown, but records remain that worship was already being performed as the local tutelary shrine in the early Edo period. Located in the farmland of the Kanto Plain, agricultural rituals tied to rice cult…

The exact founding date of Shinmei-sha in Takamikozu, Shimotsuma, is unknown, but it is said that worship was already being conducted as the local tutelary shrine at least by the early Edo period, around the early 17th century. Situated in the rice-farming lowlands of the Kanto Plain, the shrine dev…