Magome Hachiman Shrine

It is said that in the fourth year of Kenkyu (1193) in the Kamakura period, Watanabe Tsushima Mori Masahisa, a vassal of Minamoto Yoritomo, who was in Matsubara in Magome (near present-day Kitamagome 2-chome), solicited the spirits of the Hachimangu Shrine in Ishishimizu in Kyoto, and relocated the shrine in the autumn of the following year. Then, in the thirteenth year of culture in the Edo period (1816), Takayama Koemon, who was the lord of Magome Village, revived what was devastated, and became the general guardian of the entire Magome area.