Miyahata Shrine Kunisaki

 

Almost at the end of my 5th day walking around the Kunisaki Peninsula at the start of the Kyushu Fudo Myoo Pilgrimage, my last shrine of the day was Miyahata Shrine.

It seems to be quite a largish shrine with a long approach from the main road, but is totally lacking in any Buddhist elements, like Nio guardian, which suggests it is maybe not so old and maybe only dating back to Edo or a little earlier.

Curiously the second torii was made of some kind of plastic.

There was no signboard, and I can find absolutely no information online. The names on the torii are Tenjingu and Toshijingu.

The ox statue suggests Tenjin, the deified version of Sugawara Michizane. The previous shrine I visited had a Toshidaimyojin which was Otoshi, so maybe this is also Otoshi.

Up on the hillside is a collection of small, local shrines, which means maybe the bTenjin shrine supplanted the earlier shrine.

As can be seen in the first photo, there are some nice carvings on the shrine building.

The previous post in this series was on the nearby Toshi Daimyojin Shrine.

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