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", or "Palace of Suiten", is a

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dedicated to four deities: *

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* Kenrenmon-in * Nii No Ama "Suiten" is the

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ese name of the deity of

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, one of a series of Hindu deities whose worship entered Japan together with

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.. When the Japanese Empire enforced the ''

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'', the official separation of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, shrines celebrating Suiten identified their dedication to

."Tokyo Suitengu monogatari" 1985 Kodansha, Suitengu is located in

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. It is devoted to conception and safe childbirth. In 1818 the ninth

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of the

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established the Suitengu in Edo as a branch of a shrine of the same name in

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. It was inside the grounds of the domain's mansion in the Mita district of what is now

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, and the domain opened it to the public on the fifth day of every month. In 1871, the Arima family moved from Mita to Akasaka, taking the shrine with them, and in the following year they moved the shrine to its present location, on a site that had been occupied by one of the family's mansions.

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is close to this shrine and takes its name from it. There are about twenty-five other shrines of the same name in Japan.

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