About The Takekoma Inari Shrine
The Takekoma Inari Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the city of Iwanuma in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is taken into consideration one of the 3 essential shrines devoted to the kami Inari, and claims to be the second one-oldest Inari shrine in Japan. It became additionally referred to as the Takekoma Myojin Inari's conventional competition day is the first horse day the sixth day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar; in current years, the shrine has celebrated the occasion on a Sunday in February or early March. This festival is expected to attract a quarter-million attendees. The shrine is likewise home to a horsemanship museum.
The Takekoma Inari Shrine turned into established in 842 AD, reputedly by way of Ono no Takamura, the kokushi of Oshu Province, as a department of the well-known Fushimi Inari Shrine south of Kyoto. The shrine is noted by means of the Heian duration poet Noin in the course of the reign of Emperor Go-Reizei 1045-1068 and in the course of the Sengoku period was offered an property by using local warlord Date Tanemune. It persisted to be supported by way of the Date clan of Sendai Domain thru the give up of the Edo length. Following the begin of State Shinto in the Meiji duration, the shrine become ranked as a Prefectural Shrine beneath the Modern gadget of ranked Shinto Shrines.
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