Sumiyoshi Taisha
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine, Sumiyoshisan, Sumiyoshi-san, Settsu Ichinomiya, Sumiyoshino- Shrine, Sumiyoshi-taisha
, also known as Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine, is a Shinto shrine in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is the main shrine of all the Sumiyoshi shrines. It gives its name to a style of shrine architecture known as Sumiyoshi-zukuri.
Key facts
- Religious building.name
- Sumiyoshi taisha
- Religious building.image
- Sumiyoshi-taisha,_keidai-2.jpg
- Religious building.caption
- Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine
- Religious building.map_type
- Japan
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Shinto
- Religious building.deity
- Sokotsutsu no OnomikotoNakatsutsu no OnomikotoUwatsutsu no OnomikotoOkinagatarashi-hime no Mikoto
- Religious building.founded_by
- Tamomi no Sukune
- Religious building.established
- 211
- Religious building.location
- 9-89, Sumiyoshi 2-chome, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture 558-0045, Japan
- Religious building.architecture_style
- Sumiyoshi-zukuri
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Sumiyoshi ''kami'' and Empress Jingū
- Other ''kami''
- Yamato Diplomacy and the Silk Road
- Cultural references
- Notable architecture
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
, also known as Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine, is a Shinto shrine in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is the main shrine of all the Sumiyoshi shrines. It gives its name to a style of shrine architecture known as Sumiyoshi-zukuri.
The shrine is called Sumiyoshi-san or Sumiyossan by the locals, and is famous for the large crowds that come to the shrine on New Year's Day for hatsumōde. Sumiyoshi taisha enshrines the Sumiyoshi sanjin (Sokotsutsu no Ono-mikoto, Nakatsutsu no Ono-mikoto, and Uwatsutsu no Ono-mikoto) (collectively known as the "Sumiyoshi Ōkami") and Okinagatarashi-hime no Mikoto (Empress Jingū).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sumiyoshi Taisha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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