Takino’o Takatokusui-jinja Shrine 滝尾高徳水神社

Official explanation

The water deity Mizuhanome no Okami is enshrined here at Takino’o Takatokusui-jinja Shrine. The origin of the shrine is Niukawakami-jinja Shrine in Higashi Yoshino in Nara Prefecture.

Water is the source of life, but floods and storms can be disastrous. People come to this shrine to offer prayers of thanks, to pray for rain, and to ask for protection against storms and flooding.

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The guardian animals of the shrine are a turtle and a frog. A pair of animals carved from stone typically guard the entrance to shrines, and figures of stone dogs (komainu) are the most common. Animals associated with the enshrined deity can serve as guardians, such as the foxes at Inari shrines and oxen at Tenmangu shrines. Turtles and frogs are quite unusual.

The shrine was moved here from the Takatoku area (about 20 km to the east) in 1998 because of a road expansion. It is not affiliated with the nearby Takino’o-jinja Shrine that is part of Futarasan-jinja Shrine.

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Source: Japan Tourism Agency, Multilingual Explanation Database. This English text was produced by the Japan Tourism Agency's multilingual explanation project and is shown unedited. Opening hours and services may have changed since it was written.