田蓑神社, Shinto shrine in Japan
Tamino Shrine (田蓑神社) is a Shinto shrine in Tsukuda, Nishi-Yodogawa Ward, Osaka. Its main hall stands at the end of a gravel approach, with a worship hall in front. West of the main hall, subsidiary shrines are lined up in a row: Tōshō-gū (Tokugawa Ieyasu) with Konpira-gū, Inari-sha, and Nanoe-no-sha. The grounds also hold stone monuments, including one to the Tsukuda fishermen and a monument to the Noh play Ashikari.
Tradition holds that the shrine was founded on 15 September 869, after the fisherman who had offered whitefish to Empress Jingū centuries earlier appeared and asked that a sacred boat plank be enshrined with Sumiyoshi Daijin. First called Taminohime Shrine, it became Sumiyoshi Shrine in 1741 and took the name Tamino Shrine in 1868. In 1586 fishermen of Tamino-shima ferried Tokugawa Ieyasu across the Kanzaki River and were granted fishing rights and tax exemption; he ordered them to farm as well, and the place was renamed Tsukuda.
The name Taminoshima became Taminoshima Shrine in 1868, after earlier names Taminohime Shrine and Sumiyoshi Shrine. The summer festival on July 31 and August 1 features children pulling two futon-daiko drums through the Tsukuda district, clapping the Osaka shime, with kagura performed at the hall.
The main approach is on the southwest side of the grounds; paths also lead in from the northwest and northeast, connecting to housing and a children's park, and local residents often cut through. A sign asks those passing through to bow before the shrine. From Hanshin Main Line Chibune Station it is about 15 minutes on foot, from JR Tozai Line Mitejima Station about 20.
One of the shrine's guardian lion-dog statues, dated by inscription to 1702, is described as the oldest komainu in Osaka Prefecture. The stone marker at the approach commemorating the local fishing community was erected by Osaka City in 1964 and was the only site in the prefecture chosen for the Fisheries Agency's 2006 list of fishing heritage worth keeping for the future.
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