Kashii-gū

The Kashii - gū (Japanese香 椎 宫) is a Shinto shrine in Kashii, once located in a rural area, now part of the city Ostbezirks Fukuoka ( Fukuoka, Japan). Around him is a dense forest of about 3 hectares. In the center of worship are the Tennō Chuai and his wife Jingū whose son and fifteenth Tennō the empire ojin and the three Sumiyoshi deities of the sea. On the site, there are other smaller shrines for the deities Inari, Takeuchi Sukune, etc. The legendary lore according Jingū a shrine Kashii no miya (橿 日 宫) was in the year 200 built here, as Chuai died in battle against the people of Kumaso. An old shrine called a small shrine near the present main hall to go back to this establishment. Historically secured mentions find, however, until the year 723

Since the Tennō Chuai found his last resting place here, using older texts the term Kashii - byō (香 椎 庙, Kashii - yard, Kashii 's Mausoleum ).

The shrine has been one of the Nara period to the small group of those Chokusaisha mentioned shrines that received the Tennō on certain occasions Messenger ( Chokushi ,敕使). In Kashii that happens, as in the Shrine of Usa ( East Kyushu ) every ten years. The 800 -meter-long ascent to cry grounds are bordered by camphor trees.

The as " Kashii - construction " (香 椎 造, Kashii - zukuri ) structure indicated the main hall ( dogs ), their present form goes back to the last new building in 1801, is to be found only here. The building is divided into three parts, plus provided with wing doors and a multi- forked roof.

The priesthood was once perceived over many generations of four families who alternated every four years in the performance of his duties.

Until the mid- 19th century there were in the vicinity of the shrine a number of Buddhist temple of the Shingon school, but in the course of "separation of Shinto and Buddhism " ( shinbutsu - Bunri ,神 仏 分离) were destroyed after 1868. Today only reflects a small temple of the deity Benzaiten (弁 才 天) in the immediate neighborhood of these times of, mixing of Shinto and Buddhism ' ( shinbutsu - Shugo神 仏 习 合).