ITABASHI
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Heian Jizo (guardian deity of children)This Jizo was built in 1948 by local people to pray for the repose of the souls of the victims of the air raids on Minami-Tokiwadai and Higashi-Shinmachi areas in 1945, and for permanent peace.
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Minami-Tokiwadai Tensojin Shrine
This shrine is located in Minami-Tokiwadai, and has been worshipped as the local deity of the former Kamiitabashi Village since ancient times. It is also known for its "Utaura," a fortune telling system based on Japanese poetry.
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Chomei-ji Temple
This is a temple of the Toyoyama school of Shingon Buddhism, said to have been founded in the early Edo period. Fukurokuju, one of the Seven Lucky Gods of Itabashi, is enshrined here.
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Toyokeinari Shrine
This shrine is located in Yayoi-cho, Itabashi Ward. The date of its establishment is unknown, but it is said to be from the late Edo period to the early Meiji period.
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Osanbuku Jizo (guardian deity of children)
This Jizo is nicknamed "Ofuku-san," and is well known by the locals. It enshrines a man named "Ofuku", who was loved by the residents of the area for healing the suffering of the people along the highway during the Edo period.
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Muromachi Shrine
This shrine is located in Nakamachi, Itabashi Ward. It is a guardian deity for children, and is especially worshipped as a deity with miraculous powers against whooping cough, and is said to have been crowded with believers who came from far and wide to worship there.
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Sunday temple
It is a temple of the Reiunji sect of Shingon Buddhism, founded in the Shoutoku era (1711-1716). The main deity of the temple is Aizen Myoo, and it has long been known as "Aizen-sama of Itabashi.
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Chiseiji Temple
It is a temple of the Jodo sect, said to have been founded in the Muromachi period. During the Edo period, the temple was a red seal temple, with the shogun's family granting the temple five stones.
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Monjuin Temple
It is a temple of the Shingon sect, founded in the early Edo period. It is also known as the family temple of the Iida family, which served as the head innkeeper at Itabashi Yado. Bishamonten, one of the Itabashi Seven Gods of Good Luck, is enshrined here.
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pilgrim's temple
The temple was part of the Tendai sect of Buddhism during the Edo period and is now part of the Chizan sect of Shingon Buddhism. The precincts of the temple were used as a place to tie up horses during the Edo period, and horses used by the shogunate were tied up there.
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