Kamado Shrine

Kamado-jinja is a Shinto shrine located in Dazaifu, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan. Located at the top of Mount Human, which has been commemorated from historic instances as a sacred mountain, the shrine is devoted to Tamayori-bime, Emperor ojin, and Empress Jingu. The peripheral region of Mount Human, together with the shrine, is a National ancient website online. It turned into formerly an imperial shrine of the primary rank inside the Modern device of ranked Shinto Shrines.

The shrine changed into said to were founded by using Emperor Tenji while he built a fortress surrounded by way of water and moved the authority in Dazaifu to the present-day Tofuru Ruins for protecting functions in 664, due to his defeat within the Battle of Baekgang in August of the preceding year. He devoted the shrine to heaps of gods at Mount Human, which faces an unlucky route. It has sanctuaries, one at the foot of the mountain and one at its top.

There was once a 3rd sanctuary midway up the hillside, however only its ruins stays these days. The higher sanctuary become founded in honor of Tamayori-bime acting while the monk Shinren changed into acting his ascetic training in 683. The shrine is likewise recognised for being a high-quality region for cherry blossom viewing in the spring, and lots of human beings go to in the autumn to peer the autumn foliage.