Aoi Aso Shrine

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Torii and bridge in front of the shrine
Gate to the shrine

The Aoi Aso Shrine ( Japanese 青 井 阿蘇 神社 , Aoi Aso jinja ) is located in the city of Hitoyoshi in the Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto . The shrine was declared a national treasure in 2008 . It is the first (and so far only) building in the prefecture to receive this rating.

Overview

The shrine is said to have been built in 806 as a branch shrine of the Aso Shrine (in Ichinomiya , Aso ). In the Kamakura period , when Sagara Nagayori became the chief landowner in Hitoyoshi, the shrine took over the protection of the family. Since the Keichō period around 1600, 250 more shrines were built under the shrine in the Kuma district .

Tateiwatatsu-no-mikoto ( 建 磐 龍 命 ) - a grandson of the first emperor Jimmu - whose wife Aso-tsu-hime-no-mikoto ( 阿 蘇津媛 命 ), and their son ( mikogami ) Kuni-no- miyatsuko -Hayamikatama-no-mikoto ( 国 造 速 甕 玉 神 ).

The group of buildings erected between 1610 and 1630, consisting of the main hall (Honden in Nagare style), prayer hall ( Haiden , it also includes a dance floor - Kaguraden ), praying hall ( Heiden ), covered hallway ( Rō ), shrine gate (in the Rōmon- Style), conveys a touch of the architecture of the Momoyama period . It is also important that the building complex has been completely preserved in its original form. The buildings have unusually steep roofs that are covered with reeds. The main hall is richly decorated with carvings. The four corners of the roof structure in the gate are decorated with pairs of heads, which is called the Hitoyoshi style , because otherwise it does not occur.

There is an old camphor tree on the site, which extends 22.4 m in an east-west direction at a height of 21.40 m. It is registered as a natural monument of Hitoyoshi City. The age is unknown, but it is believed that the tree has been there since the shrine was founded.

photos

  • View through the shrine gate

  • The prayer hall (Haiden)

  • Haiden, Heiden, short corridor and Honden (from left to right)

  • Honing from the side

  • The camphor tree

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Sagara were daimyo of Hitoyoshi - han in the Sengoku period and remained so until 1868.
  2. ↑ The undulating verge ( 唐 破 風 , Kara-hafu ) above the entrance of the Haiden is a clue.

literature

Web links

Commons : Aoi Aso-jinja  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 32 ° 12 ′ 48 ″  N , 130 ° 45 ′ 10 ″  E