Anashi-Nimasu Hyōzu Shrine, Shinto shrine in Sakurai, Nara, Japan

Anashi-Nimasu Hyōzu Shrine is a small Shinto shrine in Sakurai built in the traditional nagare-zukuri style, with the roof gently sloping over the front entrance. The sanctuary features carefully crafted wooden structures with clean lines and is defined by a sacred mirror object and multiple shrine buildings arranged on the grounds.

The original Anashi-Nimasu Hyōzu Shrine was reportedly founded in the 2nd year of Emperor Suinin's reign, when Yamatohime-no-mikoto enshrined a guardian deity of the imperial table; another tradition credits Emperor Keikō with enshrining Ōkuninushi as Hyōzu Ōkami. In 730 the Shōsōin documents record a rite for this shrine and Makimuku Wakumitama Shrine, and in 859 both received court rank. During the Ōnin War their halls burned, and the two shrines were merged into Anashi Ōhyōzu Shrine, whose site the present shrine occupies; it became a village shrine in 1873 and a prefectural shrine in 1928.

The shrine's name comes from the three shrines merged here in the Muromachi period: Anashi-Nimasu Hyōzu, Makimuku-Nimasu Wakamitama and Anashi-Ōhyōzu. The central hall holds Hyōzu-no-Kami with a mirror as its body; the right shrine holds Wakamitama-no-Kami (identified with Inadahime) with a magatama and bell, the left Ōhyōzu-no-Kami with a sword. Its auxiliary Sumō Shrine honours Nomi no Sukune as ancestor of sumo.

The shrine is about a half hour walk from Makimuku Station and sits in a quiet area of Sakurai. Wear sturdy footwear and allow time to explore the surroundings, as there are limited pathways and few facilities in the area.

Within the grounds stands a subsidiary shrine, Sumō Shrine, dedicated to Nomi no Sukune, revered as the ancestor deity of sumo. The main shrine's three deities are kept as mirrors, a magatama bead and a sword, and the grounds occupy the site of the former Anashi Ōhyōzu Shrine, the "lower shrine" of the medieval pair.