Mekari Shrine

The Mekari Shrine (Japanese和 布 刈 神社, Mekari -jinja ) is an ancient Shinto shrine in the district Moji -ku the city of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He lies there in Mekari Park on the banks of Kammon road. Are, inter alia, in his Kami Jimmu - tennō together with his ancestors Hiko -ho -ho- demi and Ugaya - fuki - aezu worshiped.

The establishment of the Mekari shrine to go back to the legendary Jingū - Kogo. Her work is also the origin of the Mekari ceremony (和 布 刈 神 事, Mekari (no) shinji ) explain that since the early 8th century on the first day of the new year of the lunar calendar is celebrated on the first low tide. Three priests go there with torches, wooden buckets and pruning hooks into the water and wakame harvest, in order then to sacrifice to the Kami. Since the end of World War II, this ceremony open to the public.