Sumetaruho yoshida-ōkamigū, Shinto shrine in Japan
Sumetaruho yoshida-ōkamigū is a village shrine (mura-sha) in Yoshida 1-chōme, Nagano, known as Yoshida Shrine. Its precinct holds a main hall and about 100 small subsidiary shrines, grouped as 13 Ise Jingū branch shrines, 68 provincial ichinomiya, 10 local tutelary shrines and 9 others, a form created when shrines were merged at the move to this site.
The shrine appears in the 927 Engishiki register of deities as Hōno-miya in the nine shrines of Mizuuchi District. During the Keichō era it was moved from Komachi (now Yoshida 3-chōme) to its present site on the Hokkokukaidō, and surrounding shrines were merged into its grounds. In 1819 it took the name Sumetaruho yoshida-ōkamigū.
The shrine's common name is Yoshida Jinja, and its name appears in the 927 Engishiki register of deities. After the Keichō-era move, shrines from the surrounding area were merged into the grounds, so about 100 small and large subsidiary shrines now stand within the precinct: 13 Ise Jingū branch shrines, 68 provincial ichinomiya, 10 local tutelary shrines and 9 others.
The shrine stands along the old Hokkoku Kaidō in Yoshida 1-chōme, about 3 minutes on foot from Nagano Electric Railway Kiriwara Station. The sacred ginkgo at the former site, in Yoshida 3-chōme, is roughly 1 km east: 3 minutes from Shinano-Yoshida Station or 5 minutes from Shinano Railway Kita-Nagano Station.
The shrine's grounds hold about 100 small subsidiary shrines, grouped as 13 Ise Jingū branch shrines, 68 provincial ichinomiya and 10 local tutelary shrines, a form created when neighbouring shrines were merged at the move to the present site. The sacred ginkgo left at the old grounds is estimated at 900 years old, 32 m tall with an 8.6 m trunk circumference.
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