Hokkaido Shrine
北海道神宮
Takemizuwake Shrine
Takemizuwake Shrine in Chikuma, Nagano Prefecture, enshrines Takemizuwake-no-Mikoto, a deity of water, and is listed in the 927 CE Engishiki as a Myojin-taisha of Shinano Province. The shrine first appears in historical records in 866 CE, when it received an extraordinary imperial rank promotion. With over 1,100 documented years of sacred tradition, it has served as a spiritual center for agricultural rites and flood-control prayers along the Chikuma River basin, and was granted tax-exempt land by the Edo shogunate in 1648.
First historical record: extraordinary imperial rank promotion to Senior Second Rank.
Listed in the Engishiki as a Myojin-taisha of Hanishina District, Shinano Province.
Edo shogunate grants 200-koku tax-exempt land to the shrine.
Location Coordinates
36.5055, 138.1271
3012 Yawata, Chikuma-shi, Nagano
Shinano
Yashiro Station (Shinano Railway)
Dawn to dusk
北海道神宮
上川神社
帯廣神社
樽前山神社
美瑛神社
旭川神社
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Takemizuwake Shrine in Chikuma, Nagano Prefecture, enshrines Takemizuwake-no-Mikoto, a deity of water, and is listed in the 927 CE Engishiki as a Myojin-taisha of Shinano Province. The shrine first appears in historical records in 866 CE, when it received an extraordinary imperial rank promotion. With over 1,100 documented years of sacred tradition, it has served as a spiritual center for agricultural rites and flood-control prayers along the Chikuma River basin, and was granted tax-exempt land by the Edo shogunate in 1648.
Takemizuwake Shrine is located in Chikuma-shi, Nagano. The full address is: 3012 Yawata, Chikuma-shi, Nagano.