Matsunoo Taisha

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Matsunoo-taisha
松尾大社
Matsuo Taisha honden2.jpg
The haiden , at Matsunoo-taisha
Religion
Affiliation Shinto
Deity Ō-yamagui-no-kami
Nakatsu-shima-hime-no-Mikoto
Tsukuyomi
Location
Location3 Arashiyamamiya-chō, Nishikyō-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
616-0024
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Shinto torii icon vermillion.svg
Shown within Japan
Geographic coordinates 35°00′01″N135°41′07″E / 35.00028°N 135.68528°E / 35.00028; 135.68528
Architecture
Date established701
Website
www.matsunoo.or.jp
Icon of Shinto.svg Glossary of Shinto

Matsunoo Taisha (松尾大社, Matsunoo Taisha/ Matsuo Taisha), formerly Matsunoo Jinja (松尾神社), is a Shinto shrine located at the far western end of Shijō Street, approximately 1.3 kilometers south of the Arashiyama district of Kyoto. It is home to a spring at the base of the mountain, Arashiyama, that is believed to be blessed.

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It is said that during the move of the capital from Nara to Kyoto, a noble saw a turtle bathing under the spring's waterfall and created a shrine there. It is one of the oldest shrines in the Kyoto area, its founding extending back to 700 CE. The restorative properties of the spring bring many local sake and miso companies to the shrine for prayers that their product will be blessed.

The shrine also serves a kinpaku miki (gold leaf filled blessed sake) during hatsumōde .

History

The shrine became the object of Imperial patronage during the early Heian period. [1] In 965, Emperor Murakami ordered that Imperial messengers were sent to report important events to the guardian kami of Japan. These heihaku were initially presented to 16 shrines including the Matsunoo Shrine. [2]

From 1871 through 1946, Matsunoo-taisha was officially designated one of the Kanpei-taisha (官幣大社), meaning that it stood in the first rank of government supported shrines. [3]

Shofuen Gardens

After a new set of buildings was finished in 1973, modernist garden designer Mirei Shigemori was brought in to design new garden areas at Matsuo Taisha. Shigemori designed three new garden areas, which were completed in 1975:

The gardens at Matsuo Taisha were Shigemori's last project; his son, Kanto, supervised the final work after Shigemori's death on March 12, 1975. [4]

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Notes

  1. Breen, John et al. (2000). Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami, pp. 74–75.
  2. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1962). Studies in Shinto and Shrines, pp. 116–117.
  3. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, pp. 124.
  4. Tschumi, Christian (2005). Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden (1st ed.). Stone Bridge Press. pp. 108–115.

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