Empress Jingu (神功皇后)
Legendary consort of Emperor Chuai and mother of Emperor Ojin, enshrined with him at Hachiman shrines.
Empress Jingu is the consort of Emperor Chuai and the mother of Emperor Ojin, and the chronicles describe her as ruling as regent after her husband's death. She is enshrined at Hachiman shrines alongside Ojin, and where all three are present the shrines tend to speak of them as a family, which is why several of them attach devotions about childbirth and raising children to the group rather than to any one deity. The chronicles also give her a campaign overseas; that account is legendary material whose historicity is disputed among historians, and it is not treated as history on this site.
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ShrineAna Hachimangu
- Fertility & Children
- Money & Prosperity
- Skill & Mastery
A Waseda shrine named for a cave found in its hillside in 1641, which gives out an amulet for the circulation of money for six weeks each winter and nothing the rest of the year.
ShrineHatonomori Hachiman Shrine
- Skill & Mastery
A Sendagaya shrine named after a flight of white doves, holding a Fuji mound raised in 1789 and a small hexagonal hall built with the Japan Shogi Association.
ShrineOmiya Hachimangu
- Fertility & Children
- Protection & Safety
- Bonds & Matchmaking
A large wooded shrine in Suginami, founded in 1063 by Minamoto no Yoriyoshi after he read a bank of white cloud as the banners of his own clan, and known for child-rearing and warding.