Kehi Shrine

Kehi Shrine is a Shinto shrine within the metropolis of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In the previous Modern device of ranked Shinto Shrines, it become a country wide shrine of the first rank, and the ichinomiya of Echizen Province. Its essential pageant is held yearly on September four. The shrine is considered the chief dad or mum shrine of the Hokuriku location. The basis of Kehi Jing predates written history, and it's far noted the Nara length Kojiki and Nihon Shoki chronicles. The shrine itself lists a date of 702 AD, and is devoted to seven kami.

The shrine turned into typically destroyed in 1945, during the Bombing of Tsuruga in World War II via American forces, and its National Treasure Honden constructed within the Edo period with the aid of Yaki Hideyasu burned down. One surviving shape is the shrine's 11-meter-tall tore gate, which became built in 1902 and which is registered as an Important Cultural Property. It is the third biggest timber torii gates, along Nara’s Kasuga Taisha Shrine and Hiroshima’s Itsukushima Shrine. In September of 1689, Kehi Jingu Shrine changed into visited by means of the famous poet Matsuo Basho, and his go to remains venerated with a statue and a stone monument inscribed with his haiku.