Tokyo Daijingu is a shrine located in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
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The shrine is also called ''O-Ise-sama in Tokyo'' because of the deities enshrined there.
It is one of the top five shrines in Tokyo.
History
The shrine was built in the early
Meiji period
The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912.
The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization ...
by
Jingu-kyo
Jingu-kyo is a sect of Shinto that originated from Ise Grand Shrine, the Ise faith. It officially became a denominational Shinto sect in 1882, and was reorganized into the in 1899.
The missionary body of the Ise faith
On July 20, 1872 (Meiji ...
so people in Tokyo could worship the deities enshrined at
Grand Shrine of Ise from afar. Back then it was originally called ''Hibiya Daijingu''.
In 1901, a wedding took place at the shrine, being the first
Shinto wedding held in an urban area.
After the
Kanto Earthquake
Kantō (Japanese)
Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics.
In Japan
Kantō may refer to:
*Kantō Plain
*Kantō region
*Kantō-kai, organized crime group
*Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the ' ...
, the shrine was moved to
Iidabashi
is a district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was in the former ward of Kōjimachi, which existed in Tokyo until 1947.
Etymology
Iidabashi is named after a nearby bridge called Iida Bridge (, ''Iidabashi''), itself named after an Edo-period farm ...
in 1928 and renamed to ''Iidabashi Daijingu''. Then after
World War 2, the place changed its name to Tokyo Daijingu.
Enshrined kami
Deities enshrined here include.
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Amaterasu
Amaterasu, also known as Amaterasu Ōmikami () or Ōhirume no Muchi no Kami (), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. One of the major deities (''kami'') of Shinto, she is also portrayed in Japan's earliest literary texts, the ''Kojik ...
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Toyouke-no-Ohkami
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Ameno-Minakanushi
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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 ...
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Kamimusubi
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Yamatohime-no-mikoto is a Japanese figure who is said to have established Ise Shrine, where the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu Omikami is enshrined. Yamatohime-no-mikoto is recorded as being the daughter of Emperor Suinin, Japan's 11th Emperor.
Traditional historical view
Leg ...
References
Beppyo shrines
Shinto shrines in Tokyo
Shinmei shrines
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