Tamayori Hime Built Oku-no Miya in Kibune!

If you walk all the way up the Kibune Road, roughly about 200 meters or so, one of the original great yorishiro, a great tree surrounded by a sacred rope called shimenawa. This pine tree is grown from a single root and is a Double trunk or twin trunked tree. It’s been said, it’s a symbol of couples grown old together and its thought to be a millennial old tree.
Next to the tree is a Torii with a small read lacquered bridge, flanked by lanterns. When you cross the bridge, there is a small path leading through the forest and on each side are beautiful red wooden lanterns. After about 50 meters you’ll reach the Oku-no Miya shrine.
This area was where the Kifune shrine was originally built, and enshrines the same deity as the main hall, the deity of water and rain.
According to shrine legend, the shrine was founded when, in the early fifth century AD, the deity Tamayori Hime (the mother of legendary first emperor, Jinmu) sailed up the river from Osaka bay in an amber-coloured boat, landed here, and founded a small shrine here to venerate the god of water. The “boat-stone,” which relates back to this legend, is found within its precincts, and it is said that if you take back with you one of the small stones piled on it, You will be safe at sea.

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