Sumiyoshi Shrine (Iki City)

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Affiliation Shinto
Deity Sumiyoshi sanjin
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Sumiyoshi Shrine (Iki City) is a Shinto shrine located on Iki Island in Japan. [1] [2] It is a Beppyo shrine, or a shrine that is particularly notable in a certain way with a significant history to it. [3]

In 927 it was listed as a Myojin Taisha in the Engishiki. [4]

It is a branch shrine of Sumiyoshi-taisha. [5] A shrine located in Osaka. [6] [7] [8]

It is one of the oldest Sumiyoshi shrines alongside Sumiyoshi jinja in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka prefecture, and Moto Sumiyoshi Shrine in Kobe, Hyōgo prefecture. However, it is not known which one of these is the oldest. [9]

Strangely for a sea god shrine, it is located in the center of the Island. The shrine has a myth that it is located in the center because the gods were disturbed by the sound of the waves. [5]

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  2. ↑ "Iki City Tourism Federation Website". Iki City Tourism Federation Website (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  3. ↑ "別表神社とは？御朱印めぐりに参考になる「別表神社一覧」とマップ | 開運戦隊ゴシュインジャー". jinja-gosyuin.com. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
  4. ↑ Engi-shiki; Procedures of the Engi Era: Books VI-X. Sophia University. 1972.
  5. 1 2 "Japan's border islands of Tsushima and Iki offer simpler, slower pace of life". Japan Today. 2023-04-20. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  6. ↑ Breen, John et al. (2000). Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami, pp. 74-75.
  7. ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3.; retrieved 2011-08-09
  8. ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, pp. 125.
  9. ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN   978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

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