Career & Work
Places associated with career and work.
On this site the career tag covers work in the broad sense: business luck, advancement, and coming out ahead in something contested. Several shrines here describe their own victory charms in exactly those terms, which is why the tag reads wider than promotion. Each page states where its evidence comes from.
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Places in this collection
TempleKiyomizu-dera
- Career & Work
- Health & Healing
- Love & Romance
A Kannon temple begun in 778 beside the Otowa waterfall, venerated by those seeking health, advancement and a good match.
ShrineDazaifu Tenmangu
- Career & Work
- Exams & Study
- Fertility & Children
The shrine stands over Sugawara no Michizane’s grave, on the spot where the ox drawing his funeral cart lay down and would not move; prayers here begin with passing an entrance examination.
ShrineKanda Myojin
- Career & Work
- Family & Home
- Money & Prosperity
A Chiyoda shrine that served as the guardian shrine of all Edo, enshrining three deities between them associated with business prosperity, good matches and warding off misfortune, and these days selling a charm for information security.
TempleZojo-ji
- Career & Work
- Family & Home
- Money & Prosperity
A Pure Land temple in Shiba, founded in 1393 and chosen by the Tokugawa as their family temple, whose hidden principal image is known as the Black Honzon of victory.
ShrineAtago Shrine
- Career & Work
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
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.
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.
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).
ShrineUeno Toshogu
- Career & Work
- Health & Healing
A shrine in Ueno Park founded in 1627 to Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose gilded 1651 hall survived the Ueno war, the earthquake and the air raids intact.
ShrineKarasumori Shrine
- Career & Work
- Money & Prosperity
- Skill & Mastery
A Shimbashi shrine down an alley, founded in 940 by the general who defeated Taira no Masakado, and one of the few to enshrine the deity of the performing arts.
Sacred MountainHikosan Jingu
- Career & Work
- Protection & Safety
A mountain shrine that began as “the mountain of the sun’s child” and had its name altered twice by imperial act, in 819 and again in 1729; its virtues are the guarding of farming, mines and factory safety, and fortune in winning.
ShrineSapporo Fushimi Inari Jinja
- Career & Work
- Money & Prosperity
Begins in 1884 with a divided spirit brought from Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto, and holds its deity to be the progenitor of food, clothing and shelter, and guardian of harvests, industry and trade.
ShrineArahito Shrine
- Career & Work
- Money & Prosperity
A shrine that calls itself the root and the oldest of the two thousand-odd shrines to the three Sumiyoshi deities, revered as the deity of fortune in work.
ShrineMihashira Shrine
- Career & Work
- Wish Fulfillment
A shrine of victory, fulfilment and comeback, enshrining Tachibana Muneshige, his father-in-law Bekki Dosetsu, and his wife Ginchiyo.
ShrineMomiji Hachimangu
- Career & Work
- Fertility & Children
- Love & Romance
Twelve deities are enshrined here, among them Empress Jingu, Emperor Ojin and Prince Uji no Wakiiratsuko, and the devotion runs to safe birth, the keeping of children, warding off misfortune, bonds and advancement.
ShrineShinozaki Hachiman Shrine
- Career & Work
- Fertility & Children
- Love & Romance
It begins with Empress Jingu giving birth to Emperor Ojin at Umi, and a division of the deity was brought from Usa Hachimangu in 730; two stones in the precinct carry different prayers.