Goryo Jinja

Quick facts

Address

4-4-3 Awajimachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka

About this place

Goryo Jinja is in Awajimachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka. Its founding begins with the Enshinshi, which the Montoku Jitsuroku — written in the Heian period — records as the site of the Yasoshima rite in 850. That Enshinshi is the beginning of Goryo Jinja, and more than a thousand years of history can be traced from it.

Origin and history

Its founding begins with the Enshinshi, which the Montoku Jitsuroku, written in the Heian period, records as having been made the site of the Yasoshima rite in 850.

That Enshinshi is the beginning of Goryo Jinja, and more than a thousand years of history can be traced from it.

What it is locally associated with

• Origin

  The Enshinshi of 850

  Its founding begins with the Enshinshi, recorded in the Montoku Jitsuroku as the site of the Yasoshima rite in 850; that Enshinshi is the beginning of Goryo Jinja.

  documented history

• What people do here

  Site of the Yasoshima rite

  The Montoku Jitsuroku records it as having been made the site of the Yasoshima rite in 850.

  documented history

This shrine begins not with a legend but with a citation. In the Montoku Jitsuroku, written in the Heian period, an entry for 850 records the Enshinshi as the site of the Yasoshima rite — and that Enshinshi, the shrine records, is the beginning of Goryo Jinja. A founding account that starts with a title and a year.

The name of the Yasoshima rite appears elsewhere on this list too: Tsuyu no Tenjinsha is recorded as one of the old sites of the Naniwa Yasoshima rite. Two places in one city hold the ground of the same vanished ceremony.

About what this shrine grants, its own account says nothing, so this page attaches no category of prayer. The one thing stated plainly is the length: more than a thousand years.

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Sources

1. 御霊神社 — Goryo Jinja (accessed 2026-08-15)