Skill & Mastery
Places associated with skill and mastery in a discipline.
Improvement in a skill is its own category of devotion in Japan, separate from career and from study. Performers pray to Ame-no-Uzume, shogi players dedicate tablets at a hall built with their own association, and archery once had guardian shrines of its own. The places tagged here state that devotion about themselves, and each page names the discipline.
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Places in this collection
ShrineKamigamo Jinja
- Protection & Safety
- Skill & Mastery
A shrine to Kamo Wakeikazuchi, whose listed benefits run from warding off lightning to guarding the electrical industry.
ShrineKitano Tenmangu
- Exams & Study
- Protection & Safety
- Skill & Mastery
Head shrine of some twelve thousand Tenmangu shrines, widely venerated for success in entrance examinations and in study.
ShrineMatsunoo Taisha
- Skill & Mastery
Revered since the late Muromachi period as Japan’s foremost deity of sake brewing — because the clan that founded it were brewers.
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.
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.
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.
ShrineHatonomori Hachiman Shrine
- Skill & Mastery
A Sendagaya shrine named after a flight of white doves, holding a Fuji mound raised in 1789 and a small hexagonal hall built with the Japan Shogi Association.
TempleRokkakudo
- Skill & Mastery
Said to be founded by Prince Shotoku, and the birthplace of ikebana — the head of the Ikenobo school serves as its abbot.
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.
ShrineIshikiri Tsurugiya Jinja
- Health & Healing
- Skill & Mastery
Its name describes a divine power that cuts through solid rock, and it is known as the deity who heals growths and swellings.