Yoshino Mikumari Shrine
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The Mikumari Shrine (Japanese水分 神社, Mikumari -jinja ) is a Shinto shrine in Yoshino ( Nara Prefecture, Japan) He is one of four Mikumari shrines in the former province of Yamato, where since ancient times the female deity Mikumari is worshiped, so he is called to distinguish as Yoshino Mikumari Shrine (吉野 水分 神社). Since 2004 he is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.
Architecture
The applied around a courtyard structure shows after entering through the gate building ( Romon ,楼门) to the left a prayer hall ( haiden ,拝 殿). On the opposite side of the gate is the Hall of Offerings ( pagans,币 殿). The main hall ( dogs ,本 殿) to the right ( kasugazukuri ,春日 造) and flow - style ( nagarezukuri ,流 造) is a combination of Kasuga - style built and shows three lined-up small shrines for the main deity (center) and various ancillary deities ( right, left).
History
The exact age is not known; probably extends the history of the shrine to the year 806 The oldest written reference is found in the Shoku Nihongi Chronicle in the second year of the reign of Tennō Mommu ( = 698 AD. ). The plant was originally the rear of the Yoshino massif on the top of Aonega - mine. Since, on the north, the east and the west side of this mountain three tributaries of the Yoshino River ( Yoshinogawa ) arise, the idea that the deity the water ( ver) shares ( kubari, distribution mizu, water) was born. In the year 806, the plant was moved to its present location ( Yoshino Kami Senbon ).
Since about the middle of the Heian period Mikumari is also considered the guardian deity of children ( Komori Myojin or Mikomori Myojin御 子 守 明 神). The current facility was built in 1605 by Toyotomi Hideyori Toyotomi Hideyoshi whose father, according to tradition here prayed for a son and was heard.
During the mixing of Buddhism and Shinto you ordered the main deity as Komori gongen (子 守 権 现) to which only a few kilometers away Kimpusen Temple. Until the separation of the two religions ( Shinbutsu - Bunri ) in the wake of the Meiji Restoration, therefore, also exercises the followers of the syncretic Shugendō took place.
The shrine is mentioned in the famous Pillow Book ( Makura no Soshi ) the maid of honor Sei Shonagon and the diary of the maid of honor and writer Murasaki Shikibu ( Murasaki Shikibu nikki ), and also the influential philologist Motoori Norinaga ( 1730-1801 ) explained in the journal of his trip to Yoshino ( Sugagasa no nikki ) that his father had prayed here.
Deities
The resident in the central part of the main hall main deity is Ame -no- Mikumari - no-Okami (天 之 水分 大 神), distributes the water of heaven, makes for women's fertility and safe childbirth. As a side deities are the right and left Takami - musubi -no- kami (高 皇 产 霊 神), Sukuna - hiko -no- kami (少 名 彦 神), Mikogami (御 子 神), Ama- tsu - hiko -hi -no- NINIGI -no- mikoto (天津 彦 火 琼琼 杵 命), Tama - yori -hime -no- mikoto (玉 依 姫 命) and Yorozu - hata - toyo - akitsushi -hime -no- mikoto (天 万 栲 幡 千 幡 比 咩 命) worshiped.
A created in the Kamakura period wooden statue of the deity Tamayori -hime ( Princess Tamayori ) is registered as a National Treasure.