Tsurugi Shrine

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Tsurugi Shrine

Basic information
Affiliation Shinto
Architectural description
Specifications

Tsurugi Shrine (劔神社) is a Shinto shrine located in Ota, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.[1][2] It is a Beppyo shrine, or a shrine that is particularly notable in a certain way with a significant history to it.[3] It is a Ninomiya, or a second rank shrine in its province after the Ichinomiya. In the Modern system of ranked Shinto shrines it was a Kokuhei Shōsha (national shrine of lower rank), and it is now listed as a Beppyo shrine of the Association of Shinto Shrines.

It is the Ninomiya of Echizen Province

Oda Nobunaga descended from priests of the shrine. He considered it his ancestral shrine.[4]

Gallery

Tsurugi Shrine Media

References

Other websites

  • Tsurugi Shrine - Official Site
  • Sword Shrine - Kokugakuin University 21st Century COE Program "Shinto Shrine Historical Materials Collection"