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Yachi Hachimangu
Yachi Hachimangu in Kahoku, Yamagata, the tutelary shrine of the Yachi area. Known for Hayashi-ke Bugaku, designated an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
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Yamagata Hachiman shrine in Yachi; preserves Hayashi-ke Bugaku, a Heian-period court-dance tradition.
Description
Yachi Hachimangu is a Hachiman shrine in Yachi, Kahoku Town, Nishimurayama District, Yamagata Prefecture. The principal deity is Homuda-wake-no-Mikoto (Emperor Ojin), enshrined as the tutelary deity of the Yachi area. Shrine tradition records that Minamoto-no-Yoriyoshi and his son Yoshiie invited the deity here in the Kohei era (1058-1065) during the Former Nine Years' War. Following the prefectural Hachiman tradition of Usa Jingu in Oita, auxiliary deities are Empress Jingu (mother of Emperor Ojin) and Hime-no-Okami. Nihon Shoki (720 CE) records Ojin as the 15th emperor, later venerated as the deity of military fortune under Buddhist-Shinto syncretism, with Amida Nyorai as the honji-butsu. The shrine is one of the few inheritors of Hayashi-ke Bugaku, a court-dance tradition of the Heian period designated a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. Principal festival: grand festival on September 14-15.
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谷地八幡宮の名称・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谷地八幡宮（山形県西村山郡河北町谷地）の御祭神・由緒・所在地・祭礼に関する公式情報。
https://www.yachihachimangu.jp/谷地八幡宮 - Wikipedia 日本語版
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谷地八幡宮の名称・所在地・座標を確認するため、Wikidata item Q11632782 と日本語版 Wikipedia を参照。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B0%B7%E5%9C%B0%E5%85%AB%E5%B9%A1%E5%AE%AE
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