Kashihara Jingu

Quick facts

Address

934 Kumecho, Kashihara, Nara

About this place

Kashihara Jingu is in Kashihara, Nara. Emperor Jimmu, fifth in descent from Amaterasu, set out eastward from Takachiho in Hyuga in Kyushu toward the centre of the land, to bring about a country in which people would not fight one another and would never fall into want. On 2 April 1890 Kashihara Jingu was enshrined as a shrine of the first imperial rank, and founded. Its stated virtues are good fortune and the drawing of blessing, health and long life, the broadening of the imperial work, and peace in the world.

Origin and history

Emperor Jimmu, fifth in descent from Amaterasu, set out eastward from Takachiho in Hyuga in Kyushu toward the centre of the land, to bring about a country in which people would not fight one another and would never fall into want.

On 2 April 1890 Kashihara Jingu was enshrined as a shrine of the first imperial rank, and founded.

Its stated virtues are good fortune and the drawing of blessing, health and long life, the broadening of the imperial work, and peace in the world.

What it is locally associated with

• Origin

  Enshrined on 2 April 1890

  Kashihara Jingu was enshrined as a shrine of the first imperial rank on 2 April 1890, and founded.

  documented history

• Power spotHealth & HealingWish Fulfillment

  Good fortune, health and long life

  The stated virtues are good fortune and the drawing of blessing, health and long life, the broadening of the imperial work, and peace in the world.

  documented history

• Origin

  East from Takachiho

  Emperor Jimmu set out east from Takachiho in Hyuga toward the centre of the land, to bring about a country without fighting or want.

  folk tradition

On this list, this is one of the newer foundations. Where other places in Nara count their beginnings in the seventh and eighth centuries, this shrine was enshrined on 2 April 1890. The figure enshrined here is from the oldest end of the record, so the pairing is an ancient subject with a modern building. Meiji Jingu in Tokyo is the same kind of case.

What the shrine’s account describes is a journey. Emperor Jimmu, fifth in descent from Amaterasu, went east from Takachiho in Hyuga toward the centre of the land — the starting point and the purpose set down together, to bring about a country where people would not fight one another and would never fall into want.

Four virtues are named: good fortune and the drawing of blessing, health and long life, the broadening of the imperial work, and peace in the world. Matters of one person’s luck and body sit in the same list as matters of a country and a world. The tags on this page answer to the first two; for the last two there is no tag that fits.

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Sources

1. 橿原神宮について — Kashihara Jingu (accessed 2026-08-15)