Hongu (or Jogu), Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū shrine (Kamakura)

Japan / Kanagawa / Kamakura
 shrine, shinto / shintoism, interesting place, shinto shrine
2 Chome-1-31 Yukinoshita, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture 248-8588, Japan
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Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū (鶴岡八幡宮) is the most important Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

This shrine, which used to be also a Buddhist temple and far bigger than today, was originally built in 1063 in Zaimokuza where tiny Moto Hachiman now stands, and dedicated to the Emperor Ōjin, (deified with the name Hachiman, the god of war), his mother Empress Jingu and his wife Hime-gami. Minamoto no Yoritomo, the founder of the Kamakura shogunate, moved it to its present location in 1191 and invited Hachiman, to reside in the new location too to guard his government.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsurugaoka_Hachiman-gū
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Coordinates:   35°19'33"N   139°33'23"E
This article was last modified 6 years ago