Sacred place
Suwa Shrine (Nagasaki)
Suwa Shrine in Nagasaki, founded in 1625, serves as the city's tutelary and hosts the Nagasaki Kunchi festival.
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Nagasaki tutelary shrine founded in 1625 enshrining Takeminakata, host of the Nagasaki Kunchi festival from 1634.
Description
Suwa Shrine (Suwa-jinja, formal name Chinzei Taisha Suwa-jinja) stands in Kami-Nishiyama-machi, Nagasaki City, and serves as the general tutelary shrine of Nagasaki, established in 1625. According to shrine records, the Nagasaki magistrate Mizuno Morinobu directed Aoki Kataki to combine the Suwa, Morisaki, and Sumiyoshi shrines into a single institution as part of the early Edo policy against Christianity. The main deity Suwa-no-Okami (Takeminakata-no-Kami) is recorded in the Kojiki (712 CE) Land-of-Reeds pacification section as the offspring of Okuninushi-no-Kami who retreated to Suwa. The shrine moved to its present Tamazono-yama site in 1648 and was elevated to kokuhei chusha rank in 1871. The Nagasaki Kunchi festival, held October 7-9 and tracing back to 1634, is designated an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
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諏訪神社 由緒・所在地資料
Institutional source各社寺・公的機関
諏訪神社の名称・所在地・由緒を確認するための社寺・公的機関の公開資料。
鎮西大社 諏訪神社 公式サイト
Institutional source長崎市上西山町 鎮西大社諏訪神社の御祭神（諏訪大神・森崎大神・住吉大神）・寛永二年（1625 年）青木賢清による再興・長崎の総氏神としての社格・例大祭「長崎くんち」（国指定重要無形民俗文化財）に関する公式由緒。
https://www.osuwasan.jp/諏訪神社 - Wikipedia 日本語版
Secondary sourceWikipedia contributors
諏訪神社の名称・所在地・座標を確認するため、Wikidata item Q3505843 と日本語版 Wikipedia を参照。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AB%8F%E8%A8%AA%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE_(%E6%99%BA%E9%A0%AD%E7%94%BA)
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