Sapporo Fujino Jinja

Quick facts

Address

2-10-12-25 Fujino 2-jo, Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido

Spiritual entities

Emperor Meiji (明治天皇) · Ōkuninushi (大国主命)

About this place

Sapporo Fujino Jinja stands in Minami-ku, Sapporo. Its deities are Okunitama, Onamuchi, Sukunahikona and Emperor Meiji. In September 1961 the people of the Nonozawa district raised a wooden marker post. A hall was completed in 1972, and in August 1976 it was renamed Sapporo Fujino Jinja. A great gate was donated in 1977, a shrine office built in 1979, a second gate in 1980, and the great gate rebuilt in 1988. A name-stone was raised in 1992, a purification pavilion completed in 1994, and a shrine office and hall built anew in 1997. It obtained corporate status in 2008, a concurrently serving chief priest took office in 2012, and in November 2013 it came under the Association of Shinto Shrines. The annual festival is 23 September. No benefit that may be prayed for is stated.

Origin and history

In September 1961 the people of the Nonozawa district raised a wooden marker post.

A hall was completed in 1972, and in August 1976 it was renamed Sapporo Fujino Jinja. A great gate was donated in 1977, a shrine office built in 1979, a second gate in 1980, and the great gate rebuilt in 1988.

A name-stone was raised in 1992, a purification pavilion completed in 1994, and a shrine office and hall built anew in 1997. It obtained corporate status in 2008, a concurrently serving chief priest took office in 2012, and in November 2013 it came under the Association of Shinto Shrines.

What it is locally associated with

• Origin

  From a wooden marker post

  In September 1961 the people of the Nonozawa district raised a wooden marker post.

  documented history

• Origin

  A hall eleven years later

  A hall was completed in 1972, and in August 1976 it was renamed Sapporo Fujino Jinja.

  documented history

• What people do here

  A precinct added to piece by piece

  A great gate in 1977, an office in 1979, a second gate in 1980, a name-stone in 1992 and a purification pavilion in 1994 — fifty years of building.

  documented history

This shrine begins with a single post. In September 1961 the people of the Nonozawa district raised a wooden marker post — not a hall, a post. The hall came eleven years later, in 1972. Sapporo’s shrines on this list nearly all begin in the Meiji period, and a few, like Shinoro Jinja and Hassamu Jinja, in the closing years of the shogunate. This is the only one from after the war, inside the reach of living memory.

What its history contains is different too. The old shrines record who carried which god here. This one records what was built next: a great gate in 1977, an office in 1979, a second gate in 1980, the great gate rebuilt in 1988, a name-stone in 1992, a purification pavilion in 1994, an office and hall in 1997. Fifty years of adding one thing at a time.

Its four deities are exactly those of Hokkaido Jingu — Okunitama, Onamuchi, Sukunahikona and Emperor Meiji. The four of the shrine whose spirit-tokens were carried in on a man’s back in 1869 stand here as well, enshrined afresh in a new neighbourhood more than ninety years later.

It entered the institutions late as well: corporate status in 2008, and the Association of Shinto Shrines in November 2013.

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Sources

1. 札幌藤野神社 — 北海道神社庁札幌支部 (accessed 2026-08-16)