Ishikiri Tsurugiya Shrine, Shinto shrine in Higashiōsaka, Japan
Ishikiri Tsurugiya Shrine is a Shinto temple in Higashiōsaka at the foot of Mount Ikoma. The main hall sits beside a 470-year-old camphor tree protected as a natural monument.
According to the Kozumi family's records, Umashimade no Mikoto enshrined his father Nigihayahi on Mount Ikoma in the second year of the imperial calendar; under Emperor Sujin the present shrine was founded. The Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku records a rank grant in 865, and the Engishiki lists it as a shrine of Kawachi. Late Muromachi warfare burned the halls; the main sanctuary was rebuilt in 1931.
The shrine is nicknamed "Ishikiri-san" and "Denbo no Kamisama", the god of swellings, and people come to pray for healing. The Hyakudo-mairi consists of walking back and forth a hundred times between the stone marker at the shrine entrance and the one in front of the main hall. A stone marker for this circuit stands at the entrance.
Two railway stations serve the area: Shin-Ishikiri Station is 500 meters to the northeast and Ishikiri Station is 1.5 kilometers to the southwest. The approach from the mountain leads downhill to the grounds, which spread across several levels.
The name translates to sword and arrow that cut stone, a reference to the power of the deities worshipped here, Nigihayahi no Mikoto and Umashimade no Mikoto. This naming reflects the protective and martial character of the site.
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