Sapporo
The gods here were carried in. In 1869 the spirit-tokens of the three colonisation deities crossed by ship to Hakodate and came the rest of the way to Sapporo on a man’s back. The small shrines raised by the farmer-soldiers posted here, and by settlers who arrived holding the guardian deity of the village they had left, are the neighbourhood shrines of the city now.
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ShrineHokkaido Jingu
A shrine that begins with three deities enshrined in Tokyo in 1869, shipped to Hakodate, and carried the rest of the way to Sapporo on the back of the colonisation magistrate Shima Yoshitake.
ShrineKotoni Jinja
Founded by the 240 households of Hokkaido’s first farmer-soldiers, who gave their old domain’s founder a god’s name and built the shrine under it.
ShrineShinoro Jinja
Founded in 1855 as Wakamiya Hachiman under the Tokugawa shogunate’s resident-settler system, which makes it among the oldest shrines in Sapporo.
ShrineHassamu Jinja
Begins in 1856 when Yamaoka Seijirō and sixteen others, sent under shogunal orders to develop Ezo, settled here and founded an Inari shrine.
ShrineNishino Jinja
- Fertility & Children
- Health & Healing
- Love & Romance
Begins with five settler households who crossed to Hokkaido in 1885 holding the guardian deity of the place they had left, and states safe childbirth, good matches, warding off misfortune and rising fortune as its benefits.
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.
ShrineSapporo Miyoshi Jinja
Begins in 1878 when Kimura Tōkichi, a man from Akita, enshrined a divided spirit of his home province’s Miyoshi Shrine on the east bank of the Toyohira river.
ShrineTeine Jinja
Began when 250 households, unable to reach Sapporo Jinja in winter or at harvest, petitioned for a place to worship it from a distance — and later became a shrine itself.
ShrineShinkotoni Jinja
Begins in 1887 when a company of army farmer-soldiers, newly settled, read the ground and chose a pure site where a clear spring rose, answering to the four guardian gods.
ShrineSapporo Suitengu
Begins in 1884 when Mizuno Genshirō, a former retainer of the Kurume domain, carried a divided spirit north from the head shrine of Suitengu at Kurume in Kyushu; it is Japan’s thirty-ninth branch shrine.