 Location
: Niwai 2-chome
Access : Approximately 200 m south of Yosami Jinja-mae on the municipal
bus line
The god enshrined here is Tatetoyohazurawakeno'o, an ancestor of Abiko
Yosami. Abiko Yosami, who once set out to conquer the Kumaso, the descendants
of Borneo invaders on Kyushu, under the order of the 14th emperor, Chuai,
resided in this area, and his clan became a powerful one. The Chronicles
of Japan state that the shrine was spacious and that generations of Yosamis
served as head priest, but that during the wars between the Northern and
Southern Imperial Courts, the Yosami clan became extinct and the temple
was razed by fire. There is an old well to the northwest of the main shrine
in its current location, called Niwai-no Shimizu (pure water of Niwai);
it is said that the local area got its name from the well, rather than
the other way around. |
Oyosami
Shrine
Osaka
City