Hachiman Great Shrine
八幡大神社On the eighteenth day of the New Year of the third year of Emperor Gosai's calendar, a fire broke out at Honmyoji Temple in Edo Hongo, and a large fire broke out due to strong winds at the time, burning down most of the outer moat, including the castle tower of Edo Castle, and causing a catastrophe that is said to have killed 100,000 people. It is commonly referred to as the "Great Fire of the Ming Calendar" or the "Furisode Fire". The Edo shogunate planned to improve the affected areas inside and outside the towns, and did not allow residents of the areas to be cleared of fires to rebuild their homes, but encouraged them to become farmers in the new fields as a measure against the disaster, and provided alternative land to encourage them to become farmers in the affected areas.
Three hundred and fifty-five years ago, in the first year of Emperor Gosai's reign, 25 residents of the town of Kanda Renjaku and their families were given the land of present-day Mitaka, which was called "Kayaba Senmachino," and moved to Japan as Nitta pioneer farmers. This was the beginning of today's Shimorenjaku. The origin of the place name "Shimorenjaku" was named after the hometown "Kanda Renjaku Town", and was originally called "Renjaku Shinden", but it was changed to "Renjaku Village" in the fourth year of Kanbun, and it became "Shimorenjaku Village" during the Kyoho year, which extended to the establishment of many new fields in Musashino.
In the fourth year of Emperor Kanbun, Matsui Jibei, the lord of Renjaku Village, petitioned the shogunate with a joint signature regarding the establishment of the "clan shrine" that was said to be the spiritual and territorial center of village building with the village's elders, kumito, etc., and the old Matsudaira Izumori of the time ordered the Daikan Nomura Hikotaro to inspect the land and set the present site (about 10,000 tsubo) as the land to be cleared and to allow the construction of the Chinmori Hachiman Great Shrine.
In this way, the 25 people of Shimorenjaku Village dedicated the shrine and worked hard to build the village as a source of inspiration.
According to the building tag, the shrine hall was rebuilt in August of the 10th year of Emperor Nakamikado, and then rebuilt in August of the first year of Emperor Hiroka. The current shrine was built in August of the 35th year of Emperor Showa.
It was listed as a "village shrine" by a decree of the Taisei government in Meiji 4, but became a "religious corporation" in Showa 27 after the war, and developed based on the deep faith of local residents as the guardian deity of Shimorenjaku, and is a venerable shrine that is enshrined throughout the year and is handed down to this day.