Horikoshi Jinja

Quick facts

Address

1-8 Chausuyamacho, Tennoji-ku, Osaka

About this place

Horikoshi Jinja is in Tennoji, Osaka, and enshrines the thirty-second emperor, Sushun. Prince Shotoku founded it at the same time as he built Shitenno-ji, in memory of the virtue of Emperor Sushun, who was his uncle. It has long been said that "Horikoshi-san is the deity who hears one wish in a lifetime", and people come from across Japan and from abroad to receive its Hitoyume prayer.

Origin and history

The enshrined deity is the thirty-second emperor, Sushun.

Prince Shotoku founded this shrine at the same time as the building of Shitenno-ji, in memory of the virtue of Emperor Sushun, who was his uncle.

It has long been said that "Horikoshi-san is the deity who hears one wish in a lifetime", and many people come from across the country and from abroad to receive the Hitoyume prayer.

What it is locally associated with

• Power spotWish Fulfillment

  One wish in a lifetime

  It has long been said that Horikoshi-san is the deity who hears one wish in a lifetime.

  folk tradition

• What people do here

  The Hitoyume prayer

  People come from across the country and from abroad to receive the Hitoyume — single dream — prayer.

  documented history

• Origin

  Founded alongside Shitenno-ji

  Prince Shotoku founded it at the same time as Shitenno-ji, in memory of the virtue of his uncle, the thirty-second emperor Sushun.

  documented history

There is a limit on the wishes here. "Horikoshi-san is the deity who hears one wish in a lifetime" — that is the old saying the shrine records. Not as many as you bring, but one. It is a deity who makes you choose what to carry in.

The prayer for that one wish has a name: Hitoyume, the single dream. It is what people come from across the country and from abroad to receive.

The deity is the thirty-second emperor, Sushun. Prince Shotoku founded the shrine in memory of the virtue of this uncle of his, at the same time as he was building Shitenno-ji. Other things he raised in those same years are also on this list.

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Sources

1. 堀越神社 — Horikoshi Jinja (accessed 2026-08-14)