Nonomiya Shrine, Shinto shrine in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Nonomiya Shrine in Sakai is a wooden Shinto sanctuary with a tiled gabled roof, a lattice-filled triangular gable and a sacred rope with white zigzag streamers across the entrance. Two white paper lanterns with black characters flank the front. Its grounds cover 10,000 square metres and hold four subordinate shrines: Inari, Kasuga, Hachiman and Itsukushima.

The founding date is unknown, but the shrine is said to be about 400 years old. According to a brief history of Nonomiya Kōrin-ji in the Fukai estate of Ōtori district, Izumi Province, it was moved to Okuyama (now Fukai Shimizu-chō), land of the Kasuga Shrine, and rebuilt after being burned in the Tenshō era wars of the Hosokawa clan. Until 1871 it stood alongside Kōrin-ji in Nakamura (now Fukai Naka-chō), one of the 49 temples founded by Gyōki; the separation of Shinto and Buddhism parted them, and the next year it was ranked a gōsha.

The shrine is also called Hinomiya, "shrine of fire", after Homusubi-no-mikoto, and is venerated both for starting and for quenching fires; Sugawara no Michizane makes it a shrine of letters as well. Fire rituals are held on 5 October and 12 December. Its crest is the double-flowered mountain cherry, and the parishioner districts taking part in the mikoshi procession use cherry designs.

The shrine is in Sakai's Naka ward, a short walk from Fukai Station on the Nankai Semboku Line. The roughly 10,000-square-metre grounds hold four subordinate shrines and a remote worship spot for Ise Jingu. Look for the pair of stone lanterns dated Kanbun 3.

The shrine is also called Hinomiya, "shrine of fire", because one of its deities, Homusubi-no-mikoto, governs both the lighting and the quenching of flames; fire rituals are held on 5 October and 12 December. Its crest is the double-flowered mountain cherry, and the parishioner districts of the Fukai danjiri festival use cherry-blossom designs.