Susanoo no Mikoto (素盞嗚尊)
Storm deity of Shinto myth, enshrined widely as a deity who wards off calamity.
Susanoo is the storm deity of Japanese myth, brother of Amaterasu, best known for slaying the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi. Shrines that enshrine him are numerous across Japan and he is commonly associated with warding off calamity and disease. At Nezu Shrine he is the principal of several enshrined deities, alongside Ōyamakui and Homuwake.
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ShrineYasaka Jinja
- Health & Healing
The Gion shrine of Susanoo, which has kept up for some eleven hundred and fifty years a festival begun as a prayer that an epidemic be quelled.
ShrineAkasaka Hikawa Shrine
- Family & Home
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
A Minato shrine founded in 951 whose Edo-period buildings survived both the earthquake and the war, known for warding off misfortune and for the tying of bonds, and the shrine explains why it is known for each.
ShrineNezu Shrine
- Career & Work
- Exams & Study
- Family & Home
A Bunkyo shrine whose entire 1706 complex survives intact as an Important Cultural Property, rare in Tokyo, with an azalea hill and a tunnel of small red torii (鳥居).
ShrineShinagawa Shrine
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
A shrine above Kita-Shinagawa founded in 1187 by Minamoto no Yoritomo, enshrining three deities added across three centuries, one for trade and one for warding.
ShrineKamiteine Jinja
Begins in 1876 when settlers from the Sendai domain raised a small shrine to Susanoo as their guardian, and keeps a memorial mound for oxen and horses in its precinct.
ShrineImamiya Ebisu Jinja
- Money & Prosperity
Founded in 600 as the guardian deity of a marketplace, and revered since as a protector of prosperous trade and full good fortune.
ShrineKoenji Hikawa Shrine
- Miscellaneous
A Suginami shrine whose grounds hold a shrine to the weather, built inside an army meteorological unit in 1944 and left standing after the war by an oversight.
ShrineNamba Yasaka Jinja
- Protection & Safety
Its deity Susanoo is described as having put down the great serpent and removed the hardship of the people; it was long the tutelary deity of the whole Namba district.
ShrineKumata Jinja
- Protection & Safety
Founded in 862 with an oracle in the deity’s own voice: I am the guardian of this land, and if I am worshipped hereafter I shall make the realm at peace and the people prosperous.
ShrineSanko Jinja
- Health & Healing
Known since antiquity as the only deity in all Japan for warding off palsy, with its rite held for seven days from 1 June each year.
ShrineNamba Jinja
Transmitted as founded when Emperor Hanzei opened his palace at Shibagaki and enshrined his father, Emperor Nintoku.