Ikasuri Jinja

Quick facts

Address

Watanabe 3, Kyutaromachi 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka

Spiritual entities

Empress Jingu (神功皇后)

About this place

Ikasuri Jinja is in Chuo-ku, Osaka. Its deity is Ikasuri no Okami, enshrined with Watarabe no Okami, Seoritsuhime no Okami and Chimata no Okami. It is transmitted to have begun when Empress Jingu enshrined Ikasuri Jinja at Watanabe, and in 1608 it was moved to its present site when Osaka Castle was built. The virtue of Ikasuri no Okami is that, being the deity of the ground that guards this place, it governs safe childbirth, the safe growth of children and safety in trade; prayers here are for safety in clothing, food and shelter, and for prosperous business.

Origin and history

The deity is Ikasuri no Okami, enshrined together with Watarabe no Okami, Seoritsuhime no Okami and Chimata no Okami.

It is transmitted to have begun when Empress Jingu enshrined Ikasuri Jinja at Watanabe.

In 1608 it was moved to its present site when Osaka Castle was built.

What it is locally associated with

• Power spotFertility & ChildrenFamily & HomeMoney & Prosperity

  Because it guards the ground

  Being the deity of the ground that guards this place, it governs safe childbirth, the safe growth of children and safety in trade.

  documented history

• Power spotProtection & Safety

  Clothing, food and shelter

  Prayers here are named as safety in clothing, food and shelter, and prosperity in business.

  documented history

• Origin

  Moved for a castle

  Transmitted to have begun when Empress Jingu enshrined it at Watanabe; moved to its present site in 1608 when Osaka Castle was built.

  documented history

This shrine states the reason before the blessing. Because it is the deity of the ground that guards this place, it governs safe childbirth, the safe growth of children, and safety in trade — one sentence, joined by a "because". There is a job, guardian of the ground, and what it protects follows from it. That is a different kind of writing from a list of benefits set side by side.

What is prayed for here is safety in clothing, food and shelter, and prosperous business. That grouping — the three necessities — comes from the same place: a deity holding up the base of ordinary living.

It began, it is transmitted, when Empress Jingu enshrined it at Watanabe. In 1608 it moved here because Osaka Castle was going up. The castle was built, so the shrine went.

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Sources

1. 坐摩大神のご紹介 — Ikasuri Jinja (accessed 2026-08-14)
2. 坐摩神社 — Ikasuri Jinja (accessed 2026-08-14)