is a Shinto shrine in the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
Shinto belief
People worship Hachiman at the shrine. Hachiman is the Shinto kami of Imperial legitimacy. Since it was built in 859, Hachiman has been recognized as Emperor Ojin.
Related pages
List of Shinto shrines
Twenty-Two Shrines
Modern system of ranked Shinto shrines
Notes
References
Breen, John and Mark Teeuwen. (2000). Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ; ; OCLC 43487317 Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 251325323 Kanda, Christine Guth. (1985). Shinzō: Hachiman Imagery and Its Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-80650-4 Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887 . (1962). Studies in Shinto and Shrines. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 399449 . (1963). Vicissitudes of Shinto. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 36655 Maas, Jeffrey P. (1999). Yoritomo and the Founding of the First Bakufu: The Origins of Dual Government in Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3591-9 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
Other websites
Iwashimizu Hachimangū web site (in Japanese) Photos of Iwashimizu Hachimangū and references in ancient Japanese literature