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No.258 Yushima-tenjin (The God of the learning)

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Yushima-tenjin (The copper torii and the main shrine)


Yushima-tenjin (Yushima-jinja) is famous as the God of the learning in the one to have deified Sugawara road true Œö. It is called (Bunna 4) Yujima Tenmangu, too, and it says that it started (civilization 10) with the asking the presence of of Yujima village people in 1355 and that Dokan Ohta in 1478 Œšed Osamu. The tree of a Japanese apricot over hundreds is planted in the precincts and at the time of the Japanese apricot festival which is done every year from February to March, it is bustling by a lot of persons. It was established in 1667 by the copper torii (Kanbun 7) and it is specified by the city cultural asset.

At the approach to Shrine to the main shrine, the branch is "DETEIRU".

The God of the learning
The votive picture tablet of the prayer of a lot of passes is dedicatory.

There are many, too, persons who pray in the pass by the school excursion.

The tree of the Japanese apricot (It was already dispersed but it is ···).

The main shrine
The one which was built by the total Japanese cypress making in 1995
By the fire zone about the present Building Standards Law
This main shrine OBJ DO but a wooden building isn't admitted
Being the one where a wooden building was specifically permitted as the number of 1st of the Minister of Construction authorization "TOKA"

The gaslight (The dense fog light)
But it is at first that the gaslight (Meiji 5) lit up in Yokohama in 1872
After that, it became installed in Tokyo, too.
There were all five gaslights (Showa 40) in these precincts but they became removal in 1965.
This is the valuable gaslight which is installed in outdoors by Tokyo Gas's cooperation.

The entrance in the Yujima station area
The "steeper route" right where the left is steep is gentle "The gentle slope".

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