Gokonomiya-sha Shrine (commonly “Furugoko”)

Empress Jingu, who is venerated as the country’s supreme deity of safe childbirth, and eight other deities are enshrined here. The shrine attracts a deep faith as the local guardian deity of the area around the pass, especially Fukakusa Okamedani Tsuruga-cho.
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi constructed Fushimi Castle in 1594, he relocated Gokonomiya, a shrine in the village of Ishii in the Fushimi Nine Villages region, to protect the unlucky “demon’s gate” direction for the castle, building a new main hall and providing it with an estate income of 300 koku.
After Hideyoshi’s death, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Edo period, returned the shrine to its original site in 1605 as a way to bring a sense of calm and reassurance to the people of Fushimi. The main hall built by Hideyoshi was severely damaged at the end of the Edo period, so today’s main hall was built after that. (Dismantled for repair and rebuilding in May 1998)
This history led to the shrine being known by locals as Furugoko, Old Goko. When the Gokonomiya shrine deities are transferred to the mikoshi palanquins during the October shrine festival, it is used as a resting-point in the procession.
The reason Hideyoshi erected a shrine here is said to be because of the need to protect the adjacent tomb mound of Emperor Kanmu. The deities enshrined at Gokonomiya were temporarily relocated during the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in the Meiji Restoration.

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