Sacred place
Hojozu Hachimangu
Hojozu Hachimangu in Imizu, Toyama, the tutelary shrine of the historical Hojozu (Shinminato) harbor, said to have been founded by Otomo no Yakamochi.
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Toyama harbor Hachiman shrine traditionally founded by Otomo no Yakamochi, host of the Shinminato Hikiyama autumn festival.
Description
Hojozu Hachimangu in Imizu, Toyama, stands above Shinminato fishing harbor on Toyama Bay, overlooking Nago Bay. The site appears in Otomo no Yakamochi's poem in Man'yoshu Book 18 (no. 4037) about the Nago shore. The main deities are the Hachiman triad of Emperor Ojin, Empress Jingu, Hime-gami, with Emperor Nintoku as a fourth associated deity. Kojiki (712 CE) records Emperor Ojin in the Empress Jingu narrative. Shrine tradition credits the Echu provincial governor Otomo no Yakamochi (the Man'yoshu compiler) with transferring the deity from Usa Hachiman to the Nago shore in 746 CE — an early case of Hachiman devotion in Echu. The site became central to the Muromachi-era "Hojozu Bakufu" of Ashikaga Yoshiki in 1493 and received Kanazawa Maeda patronage in the Edo period. It was registered as a prefectural shrine in the Meiji period. The October Shinminato Hikiyama festival, in which thirteen ornate floats traverse the town, is a designated Toyama prefectural intangible folk cultural property.
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放生津八幡宮の名称・所在地・由緒を確認するための社寺・公的機関の公開資料。
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Institutional source放生津八幡宮（富山県射水市）の御祭神・由緒・所在地・新湊曳山祭りに関する公式情報。
http://www.houjyoudu.com/放生津八幡宮 - Wikipedia 日本語版
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放生津八幡宮の名称・所在地・座標を確認するため、Wikidata item Q11498960 と日本語版 Wikipedia を参照。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%94%BE%E7%94%9F%E6%B4%A5%E5%85%AB%E5%B9%A1%E5%AE%AE
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