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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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).
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.
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.
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.