Oyama Shrine Maetate Shadan

Oyama Shrine Maetate Shadan (雄山神社 前立社壇) is the foot-shrine of the three sub-shrines that together form Oyama Shrine, one of the first-ranked shrines of the former Etchu Province, located in Iwakuraji, Tateyama-machi, Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture. The shrine takes Mount Tateyama (Oyama, 3,003 m) as its sacred body, with the summit Mine-Honsha at 3,003 m, the Chugu Kigan-den at Ashikuraji at about 475 m, and the Maetate Shadan at the Iwakuraji foot serving as the plain-land ritual base. The principal kami are Izanagi-no-Kami and Ame-no-Tajikarao-no-Kami, recorded in the Kojiki (712 CE). According to the Tateyama Kaisan Engi, Saeki Ariyori (later Jiko Shonin) opened the mountain in 701 CE, and the present main hall is a late-Muromachi structure designated an Important Cultural Property. The shrine is listed as a Myojin-Taisha in the Engishiki Jinmyocho (927 CE).