Ōyamakui no Kami (大山咋神)
Deity of Hie and Sanno shrines, whose messenger is the monkey.
Ōyamakui, also called Yamasue no Ōnushi, is the deity of the Hie and Sanno shrines, a network with its head shrine at the foot of Mount Hiei. Hie Shrine in Tokyo describes the deity as governing the growth and development of all things, the prosperity of industry, and the guardianship of land and water. The monkey serves as the deity's messenger, and at Tokyo's Hie Shrine the wordplay on its name (masaru, heard as both "evil departs" and "to prevail") carries much of what visitors come to pray about.
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ShrineHie Shrine
- Career & Work
- Fertility & Children
- Money & Prosperity
A shrine on a wooded rise in Nagatacho, once the guardian of Edo Castle, whose messenger is the monkey, a pun the shrine explains itself, connecting it to warding off evil, to winning, and to the tying of bonds.
ShrineMatsunoo Taisha
- Skill & Mastery
Revered since the late Muromachi period as Japan’s foremost deity of sake brewing — because the clan that founded it were brewers.