Asakusa Shrine
浅草神社According to documents from the first year of the Meiji era, the deities of the festival were Toshi Manaka Chimei, Hinomaehama Narumei, and Himae Takenari and Toshogu. The brothers Hamanari and Takenari are fishing in the Sumida River, but they can't catch a single fish, and only a humanoid statue hangs in the net. No matter how many times you return to the sea and change the location, the same thing repeats itself. The brothers wondered, and carefully held the statue and placed it on the stump of the palm tree.
He then told the cultural figure Tsuchishi Manakachi about the events of the day and told him that it was a Buddha statue of the Bodhisattva Seikanzeon.
In later generations, the descendants of the Doshi clan received a dream of the Bodhisattva Seikanseon and enshrined the three of them, and the Sansha Gongensha was founded.
The exact date of its founding is unknown, but in view of the origin and circumstances and the traditions recorded in the auspiciousness of each era,
It is presumed to be from the end of the Heian period to the early Kamakura period, when the Gongen thought, which is one of the ways to spread Buddhism, began to become popular.
Later, due to the separation of Shinto and Buddhist shrines issued by the Meiji government, the company name was changed to Sansha Mei Shrine in the first year of the Meiji era.
In the same five years, the status of the shrine was listed as a gosha, and in the following six years, it was established as the current Asakusa Shrine as the general guardian of Asakusa Township.
Even now, the clan members are familiar with the remnants of the temple as "Sansha-sama".
Toshogu Shrine is the name of Gongen-sama, or Tokugawa Ieyasu, and was enshrined in the second year of Keian (1649).
Since then, it has been called Sansha Daigongen, and in the first year of the Meiji era (1868) it was renamed Sansha Myojin, and in the sixth year of the same year, it was renamed Asakusa Shrine.
The current shrine was rebuilt by Tokugawa Iemitsu in December of the second year of Keian.
The architectural style is a "stone room" (also called our hall and the hall of worship) between the main shrine and the worship hall.
Gongenzo is characterized by a large number of roof ridges.
This shrine is highly regarded as a representative gongen building of the early Edo period and has been designated as an important cultural property of Japan.
The annual festival held in May every year is known as the "Sanja Festival".
There was a performance of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's designated intangible folk cultural property "Binzasara", and the passing of nearly 100 town mikoshi shrines.
People are crowded and lively.