Fukutoku Shrine (Mebuki Inari)

It is not clear when this shrine was founded, but according to the abbreviation handed down to us, it seems that it was already enshrined in the Sadakan year (859-876) of the reign of Emperor Seiwa. Our company was enshrined as the Inari Shrine in Fukutoku Village, a village in Musashino, and took the name of the place as the company name. It is said that the shrine where it sits was vast, and the shrine hall was also spacious. It is said that the four neighbors of the shrine were surrounded by forests and fields, and the surrounding area was a rural area with scattered farmhouses. The local people called our forest "Inari Forest", and it was customary to call the milestone marker (milestone mound) that was built at one end of the forest "Inari Forest Mound". This milestone was later destroyed by a major earthquake on the eighth day of the New Year in the third year of the Ming calendar (1657). It is said that people at that time collected the fragments of the scattered stone monuments and tried to preserve them. On the left is a copy of the inscription. Table: Miyatogawa Uga Pond Standing on the Pond From the Milestone Mound to the Fukutoku Village Inari Morizuka Back: Sadakan First Year Rabbit Year Three Lucky Day It is also reported that the company was originally deeply revered by the Minamoto Yoshiie Asomi (1039-1106), who originally had a strong faith in the warlords. It is said that before the Edo shogunate, the Prince of Ota Province was enshrined, and his helmet, arrows, arrowheads, etc. were dedicated. Prince Tokugawa Ieyasu first visited the company in August of the eighteenth year of Tensho (1590) when he entered Edo, and has visited the company several times since then. Furthermore, when the second shogun, Prince Hidetada, visited the shrine on the 8th day of the New Year in the nineteenth year of Keicho (1614), he praised Fukutoku, saying, "Fukutoku is indeed a blessed deity." At this time, he saw young spring shoots sprouting on the torii gate with the skin of the oak tree, which is an old example of our company, and the other name of the shrine was "Mebuki Inari". In February of the fifth year of Genwa (1619), when the Bentengu Shrine in the castle was enshrined in this shrine, the shogun himself enshrined the divine spirit, dedicated the hood of Yamato Nishiki, and further stipulated that "the territory of the shrine is more than 330 tsubo".