Iwashimizu Hachimangū

Coordinates: 34°52′47″N 135°42′00″E / 34.87972°N 135.70000°E / 34.87972; 135.70000
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Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine
石清水八幡宮
The Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine
Religion
AffiliationShinto
DeityHachiman
Festivaliwashimizu-sai (石清水祭) (September 15th)
TypeHachiman Shrine
Kokushigenzaisya
Twenty-Two Shrines
Chokusaisha
Beppyo jinja
Shikinaisya
Former kanpeitaisha
Location
LocationYawata, Kyoto
Iwashimizu Hachimangū is located in Japan
Iwashimizu Hachimangū
Shown within Japan
Geographic coordinates34°52′47″N 135°42′00″E / 34.87972°N 135.70000°E / 34.87972; 135.70000
Architecture
Architectural styleHachiman-zukuri
Date established859
Website
www.iwashimizu.or.jp
Glossary of Shinto
Main gate of the Iwashimizu Hachimangū

Iwashimizu Hachimangū (石清水八幡宮) is a Shinto shrine in the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

Shinto belief[change | change source]

People worship Hachiman at the shrine. Hachiman is the Shinto kami of Imperial legitimacy.[1] Since it was built in 859, Hachiman has been recognized as Emperor Ojin.[2]

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Notes[change | change source]

  1. Kanda, Christine Guth. (1985). Shinzō: Hachiman Imagery and Its Development, p. 41.
  2. Ponsbonby-Fane, Studies, pp. 78, 196.

References[change | change source]

  • Breen, John and Mark Teeuwen. (2000). Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2362-7; ISBN 9780824823634; OCLC 43487317
  • Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 251325323
  • Kanda, Christine Guth. (1985). Shinzō: Hachiman Imagery and Its Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-80650-4ISBN 978-0-674-80650-4
  • Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887
  • ____________. (1962). Studies in Shinto and Shrines. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 399449
  • ____________. (1963). Vicissitudes of Shinto. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 36655
  • Maas, Jeffrey P. (1999). Yoritomo and the Founding of the First Bakufu: The Origins of Dual Government in Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3591-9ISBN 978-0-8047-3591-9
  • Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691

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