 Location
: Sawano-cho 1-chome
Access : Approximately 100 m south of Sawano-cho Station on the Nankai
Railway, Koya Line
The shrine, whose main deities are Susano and Inadahime, was officially
sanctioned by the authorities in the Heian period, such as was the system
at the time. The year in which it was established, however, remains unclear.
The first existing records of Wakamatsu Shrine having been called so date
back to 1221, when former Emperor Go-toba went to pray at Kumano Shrine.
He is said to have created an imperial abode in the young pine (wakamatsu)
bushes on the grounds of the shrine, which he so named. This is assumed
to have eventually given rise to the shrine itself taking the same name. |
Wakamatsu
Shrine (Also known as Todorokihimenomikoto Shrine)
Osaka
City