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Ishikiri Tsurugiya Jinja

Osaka · Higashiosaka · Shrines & Temples

Japanese name: 石切劔箭神社

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The god of boils and swellings. There is no end to the people walking the hundred prayer circuits.

WHEREOsaka

Minami-Kawachi · Higashiosaka

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The god of boils and swellings. There is no end to the people walking the hundred prayer circuits.

About this place

Ishikiri Tsurugiya Shrine is a shrine of Shinto Ishikiri-kyo in Higashiishikiricho, Higashiosaka, Osaka. Its former shrine rank was village shrine. It is the 'Ishikiri Tsurugiya no Mikoto Shrine, two enshrined deities', an Engishiki-listed shrine of Kawachi District listed in the Engishiki Jinmyocho. It is affectionately known as 'Ishikiri-san' and as 'the god of swellings (denbo)', and the ohyakudo-mairi, in which worshippers walk back and forth between the hundred-times stone in front of the main hall and the one at the shrine entrance, is famous nationwide.

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Founded：2 BC (traditional) Blessings：Warding off evil

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