Money & Prosperity
Places associated with money and prosperity.
The places in this collection carry a stated association with money: prosperity in trade, wealth, or the movement of it. The evidence differs from place to place, from an Edo-period licensed lottery to a line in a shrine's own list of virtues, and each page says which. The tag records what the institution states or what is documented about it, nothing more.
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Places in this collection
ShrineFushimi Inari Taisha
- Money & Prosperity
The head shrine of the thirty thousand Inari shrines across Japan, whose deity is venerated for harvests and the prosperity of trade.
TempleSenso-ji
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
Tokyo's oldest temple, in Asakusa, built around a statue of Kannon that two fishermen brothers are said to have pulled from the river in 628, and visited today for prayers about money and protection.
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.
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.
ShrineKifune Jinja
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
A shrine to Kifune Okami, the deity governing the supply of water — and long famous as the shrine of love, with a subordinate shrine to a deity of matchmaking.
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).
ShrineKoami Shrine
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
A small Nihonbashi shrine known as a deity of strong luck and warding off misfortune, with a well where visitors wash money and the only pre-war wooden shrine building left in the district.
TempleGotoku-ji
- Money & Prosperity
- Bonds & Matchmaking
A Sōtō Zen temple in Setagaya where thousands of white beckoning-cat figurines are left by visitors, and where the temple is careful to say the cat brings connections, not fortune.
ShrineShiba Daijingu
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
A Minato shrine founded in 1005 that enshrines the two deities of Ise, known in the Edo period as the Ise of the Kanto and today for a box charm sold nowhere else.
ShrineHakozakigu
- Exams & Study
- Fertility & Children
- Money & Prosperity
A Hachiman shrine built in 921 after Emperor Daigo, by divine instruction, handed down a piece of imperial calligraphy that the shrine still keeps as its first treasure.
ShrineAna Hachimangu
- Fertility & Children
- Money & Prosperity
- Skill & Mastery
A Waseda shrine named for a cave found in its hillside in 1641, which gives out an amulet for the circulation of money for six weeks each winter and nothing the rest of the year.
ShrineOkunitama Shrine
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
- Bonds & Matchmaking
The provincial shrine of old Musashi, in Fuchu, which dates its founding to 111 and enshrines a deity it identifies with Ōkuninushi of Izumo.
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.
ShrineNamiyoke Shrine
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
A Tsukiji shrine whose name means wave-averting, founded in 1659 after an Inari image found floating in the sea was credited with calming the water enough to finish the reclamation.
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.
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.
ShrineFukutoku Shrine
- Money & Prosperity
A small Nihonbashi shrine whose name means good fortune, which ran shogunate-licensed lotteries in the Edo period and still performs a prayer for winning one.
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.
TempleShitenno-ji
- Health & Healing
- Money & Prosperity
Founded in 593 when Prince Shotoku made good on a battlefield vow — Japan’s first official state temple, still praying daily for recovery from illness and prosperity in business.
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.
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.
ShrineTenkawa Daibenzaiten
- Money & Prosperity
- Skill & Mastery
A shrine that began as the guardian of Mount Misen when En no Gyoja opened Omine, venerated as the great deity of music, art and performance, with a deep and surviving connection to Noh.
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.
ShrineOsaka Tenmangu
- Exams & Study
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
Built by imperial order on the spot where Sugawara no Michizane prayed for a safe journey to Dazaifu, after seven pines grew there overnight and shone each night.
ShrineFuuji Hachimangu
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
From Ita no Okami to Kaze no Miya to Ita Tenaga Taisha and at last Fuuji Hachimangu — a name two lords each added a character to.
ShrineKokura Gion Yasaka Shrine
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
Founded in 1617 by Hosokawa Tadaoki and honoured as the guardian shrine of the whole province of Buzen, it stands within the grounds of Kokura Castle.
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.
ShrineHimuro Shrine
- Money & Prosperity
A shrine that began as the ice house supplying the Nara capital, where ice makers and sellers from across the country still gather to pray for the year’s trade.
ShrineTsuyu no Tenjinsha
- Exams & Study
- Health & Healing
- Love & Romance
An old shrine of thirteen centuries whose grove was the scene of the double suicide behind Chikamatsu’s play, and where people now come to ask for love to come true.
ShrineYuki Jinja
- Fertility & Children
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
Once kept inside the imperial palace as a guardian of the court, and the shrine whose fire festival re-enacts the night its deity was moved to Kurama.
TempleShoman-in Aizendo
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
- Bonds & Matchmaking
Founded by Prince Shotoku in 593 on the site of his dispensary — called the birthplace of welfare work — and known for the binding of ties and harmony between husband and wife.
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.
ShrineKozu-gu
- Fertility & Children
- Money & Prosperity
Founded in 866, when an imperial order sent a search for the ruins of the old capital and the shrine was built where they were found.