Yoshiwara Shrine

Our company is a shrine that has walked together with Yoshiwara Yukaku. Yoshiwara Yukaku began in 1617 (Genwa 3), when Shoji Jinemon, with the permission of the shogunate, gathered the courtesans scattered throughout Edo City in the eastern neighborhood of Japan Bridge Ningyocho (around present-day Japan Bridge Ningyocho). This area is overgrown with reeds, from which it was named "Ashihara" or "Yoshiwara". However, as Yoshiwara gradually became the center of Edo, it was moved to its current location in Chizuka Village in the 3rd year of the Meiji calendar (1655). Thereafter, the Yoshiwara when it was near Japan Hashi-thatiyacho is called "Former Yoshiwara", and the Yoshiwara after the relocation is called "New Yoshiwara". In this "Shin-Yoshiwara" there were five Inari shrines as guardian deities of the temple. In front of the Daimon, which is the entrance to Yoshiwara, "Yoshitoku Inarisha" was enshrined, and in the four corners of the hall, "Enomoto Inarisha", "Akashi Inarisha", "Kaiun Inarisha", and "Kurosuke Inarisha" were enshrined. Later, in the 5th year of the Meiji era, these five Inari shrines were enshrined together and collectively named Yoshiwara Shrine. Initially, it was enshrined in the former site of Gentoku Inarisha, but it was destroyed by fire in the Great Kanto Earthquake. After the earthquake, it was enshrined in a temporary shrine hall near Suijiri, but in Showa 9, a new shrine hall was built at the current location, and at that time, Yoshiwara Benzaiten, which sits in the Hanazono Pond next to Shin-Yoshiwara, was also enshrined. After that, it was unfortunately burned down in the Tokyo air raid in Showa 20, but the current shrine hall was built in Showa 43 and continues to the present.