Mishima Ōkami (三島大神)

Torii of Mishima Okami

Shrine building of Mishima Okami (left) and belfry (right)

There is a Shinto shrine called Mishima Okami (三島大神), a kenmu-sha of Tsurumine Hachimangu, in the Hagisono District of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.  It is unclear when it was built, but it is said Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147 ~ 1199), the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, built the shrine by enshrining the god of Mishima Taisha.  The deities currently enshrined are Oyamatsumi no Mikoto (大山祇命), Homudawake no Mikoto (誉田別命), and Sugawara no Michizane (菅原道真).

The shrine has several stone monuments including one engraved with a poem written by Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文) (1829 ~ 1894), a writer and journalist during the end of the Edo period and Meiji period.

Robun Monument

Minamoto no Tametomo Zu (源為朝図)

Minamoto no Tametomo Zu

Inside the shrine building is a large ema called "Minamoto no Tametomo Zu (源為朝図)," drawn by Tohsensai Keizan (東川斎桂山), offered to the shrine in 1836.  The ema depicts a scene from the Tale of Hogen where two demons are drawing Minamoto no Tametomo's bow.  It is designated as cultural property by Chigasaki and is open to the public only on January 1 ~ 2 and Marine Day during the Hamaori Festival.