Tsukiyomi Shrine, Shinto shrine in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Tsukiyomi-jinja is a Shinto shrine located on Iki island in Japan. The site features traditional Japanese sacred architecture with a main sanctuary, torii gates, and a maintained grounds.

Before 1676 the site had no shrine buildings and was simply called a mountain god. In 1676 Tachibana Mitsuyoshi, surveying Iki's shrines for the Hirado domain, identified it with the Engishiki shrine Tsukiyomi, and on 1 June the lord Matsura Shigenobu donated a stone shrine and a wooden mirror. Later research holds this identification mistaken; the true Tsukiyomi shrine is said to be Hakozaki Hachimangu.

The shrine's name was long associated with the moon god Tsukuyomi after the Edo-period scholar Tachibana Mitsuyoshi identified it with a Shikinai shrine in 1676, but the source states this identification was mistaken. The original deity was a mountain god, and the site was simply called 'Yama no Kami' before that. The name 'Kiyotsuki' prompted the link, though the place was also called 'Fukatsuki', likely from 'fukafuchi'.

The shrine stands in Kunibu-Higashifure, Ashibe-chō, on Iki Island, reached by a steep flight of stone steps that rise behind the lichen-mottled stone torii into dense trees. The grounds are being improved by local parishioners and outside devotees, so some areas may be under work. Allow time for the climb.

The shrine's identity rests on an 1676 misattribution: Tachibana Mitsuyoshi, surveying Iki's shrines for the Hirado domain, judged this mountain deity site to be the Engishiki shrine Tsukiyomi, and the lord Matsura Shigenobu donated a stone shrine and a wooden mirror that June. Scholars now hold the true Tsukiyomi shrine is Hakozaki Hachimangu.