Family & Home
Places associated with family and home.
Household harmony and the wellbeing of a family are stated devotions at many shrines, often resting on the character of the deities enshrined there. This collection gathers places that name the family as a whole, rather than any one member of it, as what people come to pray about.
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Places in this collection
TempleHoryu-ji
- Family & Home
Prince Shotoku vowed to build it for his late father Emperor Yomei; completed around 607, its western precinct is the oldest group of wooden buildings in the world.
TempleSeokguram
- Family & Home
A stone grotto begun in 751 by Kim Dae-seong for his parents in a former life, paired with Bulguksa, which he built for his parents in this one.
ShrineShimogamo Jinja
- Family & Home
- Fertility & Children
- Love & Romance
A shrine where people pray for protection, marriage, children, safe birth, raising a family and safe travel, in a wood that predates the city.
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.
TempleBongeunsa
- Family & Home
Founded by a widow to pray for her dead husband’s repose, and later made head temple of the Seon school.
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.
ShrineSuitengu
- Family & Home
- Fertility & Children
- Protection & Safety
A Nihonbashi shrine long known for safe childbirth and for praying to conceive, whose safe-birth charm is a length of cotton worn as a belly band.
ShrineTokyo Daijingu
- Family & Home
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
A Chiyoda shrine founded in 1880 as a Tokyo branch of Ise, known as "Tokyo's O-Ise-sama" and visited above all for prayers about relationships, an association the shrine itself explains through the three deities of creation enshrined here.
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).
TempleKodai-ji
- Family & Home
Founded in 1606 by Kita-no-Mandokoro, Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s widow, to pray for the repose of her husband.
ShrineKashiigu
- Family & Home
- Fertility & Children
- Protection & Safety
It began when Empress Jingu built a shrine with her own hands for the spirit of her husband Emperor Chuai, and a second hall for the empress herself was later added on her own oracle.
TempleYongjusa
- Family & Home
The temple King Jeongjo refounded beside his father’s grave, holding the woodblocks of the sutra on what children owe their parents.
TempleBogwangsa, Goryeongsan
- Family & Home
The temple King Yeongjo attached to the tomb of the woman who bore him.
TempleChogosonshi-ji
- Family & Home
- Health & Healing
- Protection & Safety
Prince Shotoku is said to have perceived Bishamonten on this mountain at the tiger hour of the tiger day of the tiger year, and the temple received its name when Emperor Daigo recovered from grave illness.
ShrineTanzan Shrine
- Family & Home
- Health & Healing
- Money & Prosperity
A shrine to Fujiwara no Kamatari on the hill where he and Prince Naka no Oe held the secret conference that led to the Taika Reform.
ShrineUmi Hachimangu
- Family & Home
- Fertility & Children
Empress Jingu gave birth to Emperor Ojin here, holding on to the branch of a pagoda tree, and the town’s name comes from that delivery.
ShrineTooka Ebisu Shrine
- Family & Home
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
It began when a man walking home from Kashiigu and Hakozakigu picked an image of Ebisu up off the tide line, and a hall was built for it on the tenth day of the first month the following year.
ShrineNouso Hachimangu
- Exams & Study
- Family & Home
- Money & Prosperity
It began when Empress Jingu, on her way back from the campaign in the three Han, chose the grove of Nouso as sacred ground; the word people spoke at the parting gave the town of Iizuka its name.
ShrineTatsuta Taisha
- Family & Home
- Protection & Safety
A shrine to the deity of wind, transmitted as built exactly as an oracle in an emperor’s dream directed — after which the crops were abundant and the plague withdrew.
ShrineTakakamo Shrine
- Family & Home
- Health & Healing
- Purification
Held to be the parent shrine of all the Kamo shrines and one of the oldest shrines in Japan, with a deep devotion around recovery and renewal.
ShrineIkasuri Jinja
- Family & Home
- Fertility & Children
- Money & Prosperity
Because it is the deity of this ground, the shrine records, it governs safe childbirth, children’s safe growth and safety in trade.
Natural SiteHahoe Samsindang Tree
- Family & Home
A zelkova over six hundred years old at the centre of Hahoe village, the shrine of Samsin, the deity who grants children.