Occupant of Kasuga Shrine

Kasuga Shrine

At Kasuga Shrine in the center of Hino, such a story is transmitted.
Once upon a time, a nobleman living in Kyoto, named Narumi Fujiwara, went to Ninna-ji Temple to visit.
Where a strange old man came in and drops down the sandals he had in his hand. Narumi thought, but when he picked it up and handed it carefully, the old man with a faint smile.
"I am impressed by your deep faith and honest heart. I will give you this statue of God, so please continue to pray. In ten years, he will become the chief of the great powers. Don't forget."
When I thought I had said that, my figure disappeared.
The statue in the hand was a small wooden statue with a purple crown and a sword.
At first, Narumi was incredible, but suddenly felt that this was a transformation of Fujiwara's ancestors' spirit, Kasuga Daimyojin, and took it home carefully and prayed.

As prophecy, ten years later, Narumi became the national guard of Musashi, and as he walked around the country, he heard such rumors in Hino no Sato.
When a mysterious monk dug this land with a cane, the water came out. It is said that drinking this water will cure the disease.
Narumi is the incarnation of the Jizo statue that he worships, and he intuated that this sacred water land was a suitable place to worship Kasuga Daimyojin.
Soon, he built a shrine and put the statue of the god. At first, this was called Hoi Shrine, but later it came to be called Kasuga Shrine from the name of the god statue stored.
The old Yashiro, built during the Heian period, has met the war several times, and the current building has been rebuilt in the Edo period, but the sculpture of this shrine is a spectacular. He still watches over Hino's village, and in the middle right side of the outer wall of the building's shrine, a tiger and a peony flower sculpture, a tiger and an old man, a female statue on the left side of the shrine The tiger and peony, on the back side, an old man and mother and child, and looking up the ceiling above the head sculpture of a dragon head is carved.
Looking at the Gongen-zukuri shrine from the top of the mountain, the worship hall and the roof ridge of the main shrine overlaps, harmonized with the forest of the shrine, and it is close to Hino's village.

This is a story recorded in "Hometown Konan's Old Story".
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