Walk in Obikiinari Shrine – Tatebayashi City, Japan
Obikiinari Shrine (尾曳稲荷神社) is a Shinto shrine located in Tatebayashi City (館林市), Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The former shrine status was a village shrine and a shrine in which food offerings and sacred sacrifices were made.
When Terumitsu Akai, lord of Oobukuro Castle, was on his way to Maiki Castle, ruled by his nephew Hideken Tawaragoro, in the first New Year of Kyoroku (1528), children were bullying a fox cub in a place called Kondohayashi.
Terumitsu, took pity on the fox cub and gave the children some money and let the fox cub go. In the evening, on his way back from Maiki Castle, an old man in full robes appeared before Terumitsu and said, “I am Inari Shinzaemon, the guardian god of Oobukuro.
I would like to repay you for the favor you did me this morning, he continued, ”Your castle is not in a strategic position.
Tatebayashi, on the northern bank of the swamp, is a place that is suitable for the four gods, and if you build a castle there, it will be a castle of great renown in the world.
Terumitsu wondered, built a castle here and named it Obiki Castle, and entered the castle on the first day of the second lunar month in the first year of Tenbun (1532). In order to repay Inari’s kindness, he built the Obikiinari Shrine.
Video Source: Walk with me – Obiki Inari Shrine in Tatebayashi, Gunma prefecture, Japan from 2catstrooper on Youtube ⁄ CC BY
