朝代神社, Shinto shrine in Maizuru, Japan

Asashiro Shrine stands in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, and its main hall, rebuilt in 1739 after a fire, is a city-designated cultural property. Visitors pass through a torii, follow a path that ends at the Enryu-ji temple grounds, turn right, and climb stone steps to the hall.

Tradition holds that the shrine was founded in 672, when Izanagi was invoked from Izanagi Shrine on Awaji Island. A major fire in 1732 destroyed the earlier buildings, and the present main hall was rebuilt in 1739. The hall was designated a Maizuru municipal cultural property on 12 January 1993.

The shrine's name is written with the characters for "dynasty" and "generation", and from the Edo period it served as the tutelary deity of the townspeople of the Tanabe domain. Its main festival piece is the Yoshiwara Tachifuri, a sword-brandishing dance performed once every four years on 3 November, said to reenact the siege of Tanabe Castle at the Battle of Sekigahara. The Yoshiwara Tachifuri Preservation Society keeps it alive; Maizuru City designated it a folk cultural property in 1968 and Kyoto Prefecture registered it in 1989.

The shrine stands at Asashiro 13 in Maizuru, about 10 minutes on foot from West Maizuru Station on the JR Maizuru Line and Kyoto Tango Railway. Enter the torii and the approach runs left, meeting the Enryu-ji precinct at its end; turn right there and climb the stone steps to the hall.

The Yoshihara Tachifuri sword dance is performed on 3 November every four years, re-enacting the defence of Tanabe Castle during the Battle of Sekigahara. It was designated a Maizuru intangible folk cultural property in 1968 and registered as a Kyoto Prefecture cultural property in 1989, and is kept alive by the Yoshihara Tachifuri Preservation Society.