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Shiinomiya hachiman-jinja

Shiinomiya hachiman-jinja, Shinto shrine in Japan

Shiinomiya hachiman-jinja stands at the foot of Mount Bizan in Tokushima, its grounds laid out as Shiinomiya Park. The shrine honours Hachiman (Hondawake no Mikoto) and Konohanasakuya-hime, with Sarutahiko, Oichihime and Sakae no Okami also enshrined. Six small subsidiary shrines stand in the precinct, and the eastern slope is covered entirely with azaleas.

According to tradition, the shrine was moved to its present site at the foot of Mount Bizan from an old Hachiman shrine in Yaso village, Meito district, during the Kanbun era (1661–1673). That original shrine, in today's Minami-Yaso 1-chome, still has a thousand-year-old camphor tree. The shrine is also known as Shiinomiya Shrine.

The shrine is commonly called "Shiinomiya-san" and is also known as Shiinomiya Shrine. Its grounds host a small hokora dedicated to a tanuki from the Awa folk tale "Awa Tanuki Gassen." The annual festival is held on October 16.

Take the Tokushima city bus on the Ue-Awa-ku line from JR Tokushima Station and get off at Sako-Nanabancho, then walk about seven minutes to the shrine at the foot of Mount Bizan. The azalea slope on the east side is in full bloom in May, so time a visit for that month. The shrine stands within Shiinomiya Park, with Suwa Shrine and Kiyomizu-dera nearby.

The shrine's east slope is covered entirely with azaleas, about 3,000 plants in all, reaching full bloom each May. The grounds also hold a small shrine to a tanuki from the Awa folk tale "Awa Tanuki Gassen", and two springs of the Bizan group rise here: Unryū-sui beside the front stone steps and Seiryū-sui behind the shrine.

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