Taira no Masakado (平将門)
A tenth-century figure enshrined at Kanda Myojin since 1309 as a deity who wards off calamity.
Taira no Masakado was a tenth-century figure of eastern Japan who came to be venerated in the region after his death. He was formally enshrined at Kanda Myojin in 1309, some six centuries after the shrine's traditional founding, and the shrine describes him simply as the deity who wards off calamity and misfortune. He remains a strongly local presence: sites connected with him in central Tokyo are still maintained, and he is one of the three deities to whom the guardian shrine of Edo was dedicated.
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