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Set among cedars on the shore of Lake Towada. It preserves the urabe, a rite of divination by sinking paper in the lake.
About this place
Towada Shrine is a shrine at 486 Yasumiya, Towada-ko-han, Okuse, Towada, Aomori. In the Edo period a Kumano Shugendo temple called Juwanji stood here, and it was a sacred pilgrimage site. However, it became Towada Shrine through the anti-Buddhist movement of the Meiji era. There are two accounts of the founding of Towada Shrine. In one, the shrine was founded in 807 (Daido 2): when the Seii Taishogun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro was on his eastern campaign, the lake was rough and he could not cross, so he built a small shrine, prayed, and crossed on a raft. The other is a legend about Nansobo.
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Founded：807 (traditional) Blessings：Good fortune, Mountain worship
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