Hibikubo Shrine
蛇窪神社On November 10, 1272, in the 8th year of Bunei (Kamakura period), Hojo Shiro Sakon Daifu Mutsu Morishigetoki gave Chiyo a large number of vassals and advised him to stay in Hibikubo (near present-day Futaba 4-chome, Shinagawa Ward) to open up this area, and he himself left this area.
Later, Tokichiyo opened a temple in Ōmori (Ota Ward) under the name of Hōenshōnin, and many of his vassals took up residence in the vicinity of Hibikubo. It is for this reason that there are many members of the temple in this area today.
In 1322, about 50 years after the autumn of the 8th year of Bunei, the entire country of Musashi (present-day Saitama, Tokyo) experienced a great drought, and the arrival of famine seemed inevitable. At this time, the head of the temple and the nephew of the temple, the second generation of the Hōjōjin, prayed for rain at the dragon shrine on the shore of an old pond in the forest in the direction of the Dog Pig (northwest) of the temple. Akasei (A heart without deceit or ornaments. Sincerely. With the help of the Divine Spirit, heavy rain poured down on us, and we were finally able to escape the great crisis.
When moved by this, Chiyo's former vassals solicited a shrine in Hibikubo and enshrined it in response to the gods' favor. This is said to be the auspiciousness of the current Hibikubo Shrine. (History of Ebara Ward)
According to one theory, it was built in the Kamakura period by a wealthy farmer in this area, the Moriya clan (the ancestor of the current surname Moriya clan, etc.).
The company's former name was Shinmeisha, but it was later promoted to a village shrine and renamed "Tenso Shrine".
From May 1 of the first year of Reiwa, in commemoration of the Great Tradition and in prayer for the development of the region, it was decided to upgrade the alternative name "Hebikubo Shrine", which is often inquired about as a shrine name, to a common name.