Takekoma Inari Shrine

Takekoma Inari Shrine

Takekoma Inari is the second-oldest shrine to the "kami" Inari in Japan. [Smyers, Karen Ann. The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. 17-18. ISBN 0-8248-2102-5] It is located in Iwanuma in Miyagi Prefecture. It was established in the ninth century, reputedly by Ono no Takamura. [cite web |url=http://www.kankou-miyagi.net/cgi-bin/ss_detail.cgi?ID=2140071&country=eng&ef=lst |title=Shrines/Temples: Takekoma Jinja |accessdate=2007-02-19 |format=html |work=Miyagi Tourist |year=2001 ]

Takekoma Inari annually celebrates a festival day. Inari's traditional festival day is the first horse day (the sixth day) of the second month of the lunisolar calendar; in recent years, the shrine has celebrated the event on a Sunday in February or early March. This festival is estimated to draw a quarter-million attendees. [cite web |url=http://www.pref.miyagi.jp/kankou/EN/Traditional_Events/Traditional_Events.htm |title=Traditional Events |accessdate=2007-02-19 |format=html |work=Miyagi Prefectural Government website |year=2004 ] The shrine is also home to a horsemanship museum.

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* [http://www.kankou-miyagi.net/cgi-bin/ss_detailmap.cgi?ID=2140071&stf=1&country=eng&ef=lst Map showing the location of Takekoma Inari in Miyagi Prefecture]


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