Kangawa Shrine

Our company was founded in the 3rd year of the 5th Emperor Takaaki, and it is a famous shrine with a shrine at the time of the descent of Yawata Taro Yoshiie. At first, the shrine was located on a mound in the land of the botanical garden, on a shell mound called Gotenzakabe, and in September of the 29th year of Onei (1422), at the time of the Shinto lord Mori II Iyo, it is clearly stated on the building tag that it was built by the abolition of the head of the shrine, and if it is written as Koishikawa Sosha Hikawa Myojin, it is said that you should already know the Taisha at this time. In order to run the mansion of Tokumatsumaru, the younger brother of the fourth shogun Prince Ietsuna, in the botanical garden, we will provide our land as a site. Therefore, our company will be relocated to the original Haramachi, the current area of Hakusan 4-chome 20. It was August 1652. Tokumatsumaru later became the fifth shogun, Prince Tsunayoshi, but the new residence was called Hakusan Goten, and the name of the nearby town was Hakusan Gotencho until the residence was implemented. It was moved to the current hill, which was said to be a scenic spot, in the 12th year of Genroku (1699), and more than 300 years have already passed. Since its founding, the shrine has been passed down from generation to generation, and the clan members have always looked up to the gods and worshipped them, and the rituals have continued to this day, but it is noteworthy in the history of the shrine that it became a famous shrine and was counted as one of the famous places in Edo when the shrine hall that had been dilapidated in the Middle Ages was rebuilt by the founder of Dentsuin Temple. On November 30, Meiji 23, when Emperor Taisho was still the Crown Prince, he stopped by the Koishikawa Botanical Garden to pay his respects. The shrine was restored after the Great Kanto Earthquake after three repairs by Kansei, Kyowa, and Kaei, and became a majestic shrine in the renovation work in the early Showa period, but it was burned to ashes on May 25, Showa 20. Even in the midst of unprecedented devastation after the war, the reconstruction work of the shrine hall was completed in Showa 33, the reconstruction of the Temizusha was carried out in Heisei 16, and the Kagura Hall was rebuilt in Heisei 22 and named Mizutani-den. Appendix There are many natural springs in this area of the Koishikawa Plateau, which was opened early on, and even today there are legends about paradise water, which was revered as a sacred spring. In "Edo Sunako", it is said that the shrine is a place where the dragon woman of paradise water can be enshrined, but this is because the deity of the shrine was enshrined as a water god, so the spirit of paradise water is probably identified with the god of the dragon. Hikawa Shrine has been used as the company name for many years, but in the Taisho era, the Shinto lord Mori XI Shokyo had doubts about the company name and asked a scholar to conduct research, and as a result of his own research, he came to the conclusion that the character of the shrine was appropriate.