Sumiyoshi Shrine (Iki City) Explained

Religious Affiliation:	Shinto
Deity:	Sumiyoshi sanjin

Sumiyoshi Shrine (Iki City) is a Shinto shrine located on Iki Island in Japan.^{[1] [2]} It is a Beppyo shrine, or a shrine that is particularly notable in a certain way with a significant history to it.^[3]

In 927 it was listed as a Myojin Taisha in the Engishiki.^[4]

It is a branch shrine of Sumiyoshi-taisha.^[5] A shrine located in Osaka.^{[6] [7] [8]}

It is one of the oldest Sumiyoshi shrines alongside Sumiyoshi jinja in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka prefecture, and Moto Sumiyoshi Shrine in Kobe, Hyōgo prefecture. However, it is not known which one of these is the oldest.^[9]

Strangely for a sea god shrine, it is located in the center of the Island. The shrine has a myth that it is located in the center because the gods were disturbed by the sound of the waves.

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33.7883°N 129.7065°W

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Iki City Tourism Federation Website . 2023-12-01 . Iki City Tourism Federation Website . ja.
3. Web site: 別表神社とは？御朱印めぐりに参考になる「別表神社一覧」とマップ 開運戦隊ゴシュインジャー . 2023-04-02 . jinja-gosyuin.com.
4. Book: Engi-shiki; Procedures of the Engi Era: Books VI-X . 1972 . Sophia University . en.
5. Web site: 2023-04-20 . Japan's border islands of Tsushima and Iki offer simpler, slower pace of life . 2023-11-26 . Japan Today . en.
6. Breen, John et al. (2000). Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami, pp. 74-75.
7. https://web.archive.org/web/20120213073802/http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/images/uploads/EOS070712Ab.pdf "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3.
8. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, pp. 125.
9. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128