Shitori Shrine (Tottori)

The kami enshrined at Shitori Shrine are:{{cite web |title=一ノ宮倭文神社について |url=https://www.sitorijinja.com/about |website=Shitori Jinja official home page |publisher=Shitori Jinja |access-date=17 January 2023}}

• {{nihongo|{{ill|Takehazuchi|ja|天羽槌雄神|lt=Takehazuchi-no-Mikoto}}|建葉槌命|}}
• {{nihongo|{{ill|Shitateruhime|ja|下照比売|lt=Shitateruhime-no-Mikoto}}|下照姫命|}}
• {{nihongo|Takeminakata|建御名方命|}}
• {{nihongo|Ame-no-wakahiko|天稚彦命|}}
• {{nihongo|Kotoshironushi|事代主命|}}
• {{nihongo|Sukunabikona|少彦名命|}}
• {{nihongo|Ajisukitakahikone|味耜高彦根命|}}

The origins of Shitori Shrine are unknown. Although there is no documentary evidence, it is believed that it began as the family shrine for the {{Nihongo|Shitori clan|倭文氏}} of Kofun period craftsmen who weavers, who regarded {{ill|Takehazuchi|ja|天羽槌雄神|lt=Takehazuchi-no-Mikoto}} as their ancestor. However, the shrine's legends are all centered around {{ill|Shitateruhime|lt=Shitateruhime-no-Mikoto|ja|下照比売}}, whom the shrine legend claims arrived in this location from Izumo by boat. She established her residence on the mountain behind this shrine, and after her death, she was buried in a kofun constructed in the shrine's precincts.{{cite book |last1=Yoshiki |first1=Emi |title=Zenkoku 'Ichinomiya' tettei gaido |date=2007 |publisher=PHP Institute |isbn=978-4569669304 |language=Japanese}}

The earliest this shrine appears in documentary records is in the AD 808 medical text {{Nihongo|Daido-ruishu-ho|大同類聚方|}}. During the Sengoku period, the shine was laid to waste, but it was reconstructed by the Amago clan and was later supported by the Ikeda clan, the daimyō of Tottori Domain. During the Meiji period era of State Shinto, the shrine was rated as a {{nihongo|National shrine, 3rd rank|国幣中社|Kokuhei Shosha}} under the modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, pp. 125.

Until the early 20th century, Shitateruhime-no-Mikoto was regarded as the primary deity of this shrine. However, in 1915 an archaeological excavation discovered that the purported empun-style circular burial mound was actually a sutra mound. The mound had a diameter of 16-meters and height of 1.6 meters. It contains a rectangular stone box that was 1.2 x 0.9 x 0.5 meters made of andesite flat stones. The inside was covered with coarse sand, and contained copper sutra cylinder with inscriptions. The inscription was dated 1103 and was inscribed by monk named Kyoson of the Hōki Ichinomiya. In addition to the sutra cylinder, the box contained a gilt-bronze statue of Kannon Bosatsu, an image of Miroku Bosatsu engraving on a copper plate, a bronze mirror, a cypress fan, a short sword, beads, and copper coins. The sutra tube was buried in 1103 (Kōwa 5) and marked as "2052 years after the death of the Buddha Sakyamani".{{Cite book |last=Adolphson |first=Mikael S. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Heian_Japan_Centers_and_Peripheries/UjB8yiiGDykC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries |last2=Kamens |first2=Edward |last3=Matsumoto |first3=Stacie |date=2007-02-28 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-3013-7 |pages=261 |language=en}} The sutra mounds are valuable in considering the burial memorial service in the Heian period. The sutra mound was designated as a National Historic Site in 1935.{{cite web |url=https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/401/2116|title= 伯耆一宮経塚|language=Japanese |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs |accessdate=January 2, 2023}} All excavated items are stored at the Tokyo National Museum.{{cite book |last1=Isomura |first1=Yukio |last2=Sakai |first2=Hideya |title=(国指定史跡事典) National Historic Site Encyclopedia |date=2012 |publisher=学生社 |isbn=978-4311750403}}{{in lang|ja}}

The shrine is located a 35-minute walk from Matsuzaki Station on the JR West San'in Main Line.{{cite book |last1=Okada |first1=Shoji |title=Taiyō no chizuchō 24 zenkoku 'Ichinomiya' meguri |date=2014 |publisher=Heibonsha |isbn=978-4582945614 |language=Japanese}}

• {{nihongo|Hoki Ichinomiya Sutra Mound Excavated Items|伯耆一宮経塚出土品||}}{{cite web |url=https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/148928|title=伯耆一宮経塚出土品|trans-title=Hoki Ichinomiya Sutra Mound Excavated Items|language=Japanese |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs |accessdate=20 August 2020}}

Shitori-jinja Kyoduka.jpg|Sutra Mound

伯耆一宮経塚出土 金銅観音菩薩立像・銅造千手観音菩薩立像.JPG|Recovered artifacts from the Sutra Mound

伯耆一宮経塚出土品.JPG|Recovered artifacts from the Sutra Mound

倭文神社の狛犬 - panoramio.jpg|Komainu

• List of Shinto shrines
• List of Historic Sites of Japan (Tottori)
• List of National Treasures of Japan (archaeological materials)
• Ichinomiya

{{Reflist}}

• Plutschow, Herbe. Matsuri: The Festivals of Japan. Routledge Curzon (1996) {{ISBN|1-873410-63-8}}
• Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Imperial+House+of+Japan The Imperial House of Japan.] Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/194887 OCLC 194887]

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