Ōkaburaya Shrine (大鏑矢神社, ''Ōkaburaya jinja'') is a
Shinto
Shinto () is a religion from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners ''Shintois ...
shrine located in
Tamura, Fukushima
is a city located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 35,702 in 12,821 households and a population density of 78 persons per km². The total area of the city was .
Geography
Tamura is located in east-central ...
Prefecture, Japan. It enshrines the
kami
are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the sp ...
Takamimusubi
Takamimusubi (高御産巣日神, lit. "High Creator") is a god of agriculture in Japanese mythology, who was the second of the first beings to come into existence.
It is speculated that Takamimusubi was originally the tutelary deity for the J ...
(高皇産霊神), Ōkaburaya no kami (大鏑矢神), and Sakanoue Tamuramaro no mikoto (坂之上田村麿命). Its main annual festival is held on November 1.
See also
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List of Shinto shrines in Japan
This is a list of notable Shinto shrines in Japan. There are tens of thousands of shrines in Japan. Shrines with structures that are National Treasures of Japan are covered by the List of National Treasures of Japan (shrines). For Shinto shrines ...
External links
Official website
Shinto shrines in Fukushima Prefecture
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