Daikoku Soul Shrine
大國魂神社The deity of the festival is enshrined as the god of Musashi's national soul at the Great Soul of the Great Wolf. This great god is the son of Susano no Mikoto, who cultivated this land a long time ago, gave the people the way of food, clothing, and shelter, and taught them how to prohibit medicine, etc., and managed this land.
The origin of our company was created according to the oracle of the Great God on May 5, the 41st year of the 12th Emperor Jinggyo (111 AD). It is said that the descendants of Izumo no Omi-Ame-no-hohi were first appointed to Musashi Kokuzo and served the Company, and then generations of Kokuzo served and took charge of the rituals.
Later, during the reign of Emperor Kotoku (596-654), after the reform of Daika (645), the national capital of Musashi was placed here, and the company was used as a place of national service, and the national priest served and supervised domestic affairs.
In addition, the national priest arranged the domestic deities through votive pilgrimages to domestic shrines or the execution of Shinto rituals, which is the origin of Musashi Sosha.
Later, on both sides of the main shrine, the famous deities of Japan were enshrined in Rokusho (Ono Ōkami, Ogawa Ōkami, Hikawa Ōkami, Chichibu Ōkami, Kanasana Ōkami, and Sugiyama Ōkami), and it came to be called Rokushogu.
In the first year of Junaga (1182), Minamoto Yoritomo sent Kasai Saburo Kiyoshige as an envoy to pray for the safe birth of Masako Masamuro. In the second year of Bunji (1186), Yoritomo built a shrine with Musashi Mori Yoshinobu as a magistrate, and in February of the first year of Sadanaga (1232), a shrine was repaired with Musashi Mori Yori as a magistrate in the reign of the shogun Yoritsune.
In addition, after Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo in August of the 18th year of Tensho (1590), he was particularly revered because it was the general shrine of Musashi Province, and donated 500 koku of the shrine territory and devoted himself to the construction of the shrine and other buildings.
In October of the 3rd year of Shoho (1646), the shrine was burned down by a fire, but in the 7th year of Kanbun (1667), under the order of Shogun Ietsuna, Hiroyuki Kuze Yamato Mori built the shrine and continues to this day. The style is a vermilion-painted hall with three halls on the side, and the roof is a flowing structure, and the cypress bark thatch was changed to a copper roof during the Keio year. The main shrine is designated as a cultural property of the city.
In the first year of the Meiji Era (1868), it was listed as a junior imperial shrine, in the 7th year of the same year (1874) it was listed as a prefectural shrine, and in the 18th year of the same year, it was listed as a government money shrine.
The company was originally called Daikoku Soul Shrine, but since it has become the general shrine of Musashi Province and has enshrined six famous shrines in Japan, the company name of "Musashi Sosha Rokushonomiya" was used, and in Meiji 4 (1871), it was restored to its original name and called "Daikoku Soul Shrine".