Sub-shrine: Okage Myojin おかげ明神
Next to Haraedo no Ohkami, there is Okage Myojin shrine. The Deity enshrined there make our hope come true. Don’t tell her all of your hopes. She can handle only one of them.
Behind the shrine, there is a cedar tree. We can many halls on it. The tree would be used when people put someone under curse.
Actually, Jishu shrine used to be a place for Ushinokoku Mairi. In Ushikonoku mairi, people visit shrine or temple to curse a person they detest. They were in white clothes and wore trivet as a crown. The crown had candles like the picture above. They stuck a thick nail to the wood through a figurine made of hay. The figurine played a role of a person they wanted to be cursed.
Ushinokoku Mairi was not a way of curse originally. It was a way of making people’s hope come true but it became a way of curse as time goes by.
SCARYYY!!!
Sub-shrine: Mizukake Jizo Bosatsu 水かけ地蔵さま
There is a stone statue of Mizukake Jizo. Jizo is a Buddhist Deity called Jizo Bosatsu who saves people in suffer. Mizukake Jizo was excavated at Jishu shrine because he had been on an austere and intense training for enlightenment under the ground.
We put water on the statue with a dipper to ask his help.
Sub-shrine: Ohtano Ohkami and Daikoku-sama 大田大神と撫で大国さま
To the right of Okage Myojin, there is a shrine enshrines Ohtano Ohkami and Daikoku-sama. Ohotano Ohokami gives us long and healthy life. Daikoku-sama is Ohkuninushi no Mikoto.
He gives us lots of prosperity depending on a place we touch.
・Head Makes you smart.
・Belly Easy delivery.
・Barrel Fortunes on family affair.
・Bag Money
・Hand Triumph
・Foot Safety
Sub-shrine: Happy Drum 幸福祈願所
Sound the drum with your hand softly. You hopes resonate.
The Special Goen prayer at Kigan den 祈願殿と縁結び特別祈願
Kigan den is a hall where ritual is held.It is located face to face the main hall. Priests pray for you there every day. The price depend on terms you want:
- For 1 year: 150,000 JPY
- For 1 month: 15,000 JPY
- For 1 week: 5,000 JPY
Ask priests about the ritual at Kiganden by 2 p.m. (week day) or 10 a.m. ~4 p.m. (holiday).
Sub-shrine: Kiyome Dokoro 清め所
Before we go to the main hall, we visit Kiyome Dokoro and purify ourselves.
