Tamasaki Shrine

Tamasaki Shrine (Tamasaki-jinja) stands in Ichinomiya Town, Chosei District, Chiba Prefecture, on the Pacific coast of the Boso Peninsula, and is the ichinomiya of Kazusa Province. The main enshrined deity is Tamayori-hime-no-Mikoto, recorded in the Kojiki (712 CE) and the Nihon Shoki (720 CE) as the maternal aunt and consort of Ugayafukiaezu-no-Mikoto and the mother of Emperor Jimmu. The shrine is recorded in the Engishiki (927 CE) jinmyocho of the Isumi district of Kazusa Province as "Tamasaki-jinja, Myojin Dai." The shrine lies on a sunrise meridian extending eastward from Ise Jingu and is treated as one of the sacred sites on the so-called "rising-sun line." The shrine was elevated to kokuhei chusha rank in 1871. The Kazusa Junisha festival held in September, featuring the convergence of nine portable shrines from neighboring towns on the shore, is a Chiba Prefecture Intangible Folk Cultural Property.