Kakinomoto Shrine

Kakinomoto Shrine is a Shinto Shrine in Akashi, Hyogo. It is also known as Hitomaru san. The shrine's most important deity is Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, a historical figure who is reputed to have surpassed thru the Akashi area at some point of his life, and who was deified in the centuries following his dying, as a god of literature, scholarship, hearth safety and childbirth. According to way of life, the shrine changed into based in 887 by way of the monk Kakusho, within the grounds of the Gessho-ji temple. It moved to its current region to deal with the construction of Akashi Castle.

The records of the shrine is said to begin in 887 Ninna when Kakusho a Buddhist monk of the temple Gessho-ji speculated that Hitomaro's spirit had come to rest in Akashiand constructed a small shrine in the back of his temple. Both the temple and the shrine have been moved to their modern-day region to deal with the development of Akashi Castle. In 1723 the shrine was granted the first rank Japan's Shinto Shrine rating gadget and the shrine's deity was given the title Kakinomoto Dai-myojin.