An ancient shrine said to have been founded in 807 at Iwakura, the sacred site of iwakura (rock-seat) worship from which the place-name Iwakura derives. The deity Ishikura Myojin is enshrined in a great rock, preserving the form of ancient nature veneration. The October fire festival, in which participants run down the mountain carrying torches, is one of Kyoto's representative autumn festivals. T…

Ishikura Shrine is said to have been founded in 807 (the second year of Daidō) in what is now Iwakura, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto. Both the shrine's name and the place-name Iwakura derive from the ancient practice of iwakura worship, in which a great rock is venerated as the seat of a deity. The enshrined deit…