Homusubi no Mikoto (火産霊命)
A deity of fire, enshrined at Atago shrines as protection against it.
Homusubi no Mikoto is a deity of fire. Shrines of the Atago network enshrine the fire deity not to invoke fire but as protection from it, and Tokyo's Atago Shrine was founded on exactly that basis in 1603, by order of Tokugawa Ieyasu, as a deity against fire for the new city of Edo. The shrine still names fire prevention and disaster prevention first among what it is associated with.
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A shrine on a steep hill in Minato, founded in 1603 on Tokugawa Ieyasu's order as a deity against fire, and known for the stone staircase named after a rider who is said to have galloped up it.
ShrineWashio Atago Shrine
Transmitted as founded some nineteen hundred years ago, it took its present name in 1901 when Washio Shrine and Atago Shrine became one; it is one of the three great Atago shrines.