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Kashii-Gu Shrine（香椎宮）

The Japanese Emperors are said to be an offspring of the supreme sun deity in the heaven, but even if they are the Emperors, they would be cursed to death when they go against the deity's willingness.

Kashii-Gu Shrine, located in Kashii district, Fukuoka, used to be a tentative palace called Kashi-no-miya for the 14th emperor Chuai （仲哀天皇）and his wife, the empress Jingu （神功皇后）, the mother of the 15th emperor Oujin（応神天皇）: refer to my previous article）, when they headed to Kyushu to conquer the hostile tribe called Kumaso （熊襲）who lived in the current Aso area in Kumamoto. The shrine's name "Kashi-i" comes from the palace's name-Kashi.

The imperial troupe was planning to conquer the Kumaso, but the deity's wish was different from Chuai's plan. Sumiyoshi deities (three deities representing the ocean） possessed a body of his wife-the empress Jingu at night in a day and told him through Jingu's voice that they would give him a country in the west, where there were treasures such as golds and silvers, so they asked Chuai to stop marching to Kumaso and change his direction to the country in the west. However, Chuai opposed to the divine advise as saying that there was only ocean in the west, so nothing can be pursued. The deities got furious at this Chuai's disobedience and cursed him to die eventually.

Upon her husband's death, Jingu took over the throne tentatively and the Sumiyoshi deities came again to her in attempts to persuade her to follow their instruction.The deities told her that the baby in her womb was supposed to be the next emperor and showed her the direction to go to the country in the west. The country is said to be Silla and Paekche, the former countries in the Korean Peninsula


After Jingu conquered the countries in Korea, she built a mausoleum for Chuai in the Kashi-no-miya palace in 200 AD, so firstly the Kashii-Gu shrine was not a shrine, just a mausoleum. In 723 AD, the 45th emperor Shomu（聖武天皇） built a sumptuous building for the mausoleum and the imperial court paid special respect to this place. After Meiji Period, the mausoleum was officially assigned as a shinto shrine and since then, Kashii-Gu shrine has been seen as a shrine.

The shrine is one of sixteen "Choku-sai sha (勅祭社)" shrines in Japan. The emperor would send his special ambassador (Choku-shi：勅使）to the shrines' festivals （Choku-sai：勅祭)　at those Choku-sai sha shrines. Before the Meiji Restoration, Kashi-Gu shrine had sent the shrine's water called Furou-sui（不老水：immortal water）to the emperor every year and in return, the emperor had sent the ambassador to the shrine every ten years with his special gifts. Currently, the Furou-sui delivery was abolished but the ambassador system still is alive. 




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場所: 日本, 福岡県福岡市東区香椎４丁目１６−１

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