The Origin of Kasuga Shrine

Kasuga Shrine

This story is transmitted to Kasuga Shrine in the center of Hino.
Once upon a time, a nobleman living in Kyoto named Narumi Fujiwara went to Ninnaji Temple to visit.
Where an unknown old man comes in and drops his sandals on purpose. Narimi felt bad, but picked it up and handed it carefully, and the old man gave a faint smile,
"I am impressed by your deep faith and honest heart. I will give you this statue of God, so keep praying. And ten years later, he will be the chief of the great power. Don't forget."
I thought he had said, and his figure disappeared.
The statue of God in the hand was a small wooden statue with a sword on a purple crown.
At first, Narumi was hard to believe, but suddenly, I felt that this was the transformation of Kasuga Daimyojin, the spirit of Fujiwara's ancestors, and continued to pray.

As expected, ten years later, Narumi became the national guard of Musashi, and as I walked around the country, I heard such a rumor at Hino-no-sato.
When a mysterious monk dug this land with a cane, the water came up. It is said that drinking this water cures the disease.
Narumi was the incarnation of the Jizo statue that he worshiped, and I intuitively felt that this land of sacred water was a suitable place to worship Kasuga Daimyojin.
At once, he built a shrine and put the statue of God. At first, this was called Hoi Shrine, but later it came to be called Kasuga Shrine from the name of the statue that was stored.
The old Yashiro, built in the Heian era, has met several wars, and the current building has been rebuilt in the Edo era, but the sculptures of this shrine are wonderful. He still watches Hino's village, and in the middle right side of the outer wall of the building's shrine, sculptures of tigers and peony flowers, tigers and elderly people on the back side, statues of women, and tigers on the left side of the shrine The sculptures of the dragon head are carved on the back side, when you look up at the old and mother, and the ceiling above the head.
Looking at the Gongen-built shrine from the top of the mountain, the worship hall and the roof ridge of the main shrine overlap twice, harmonizing with the forest of the shrine, and it is clear to Hino no Sato.

It is a story recorded in "Old Story of Hometown Konan 50 Episode".
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