Masahiko Shrine — Local services in Shinkami Gotou

During the Kamakura period, in the year Jogen 3 (1209), Fujiwara Michitaka , who was the jitoshiki or lord of manor dispatched to govern Ojika and Nakadori Islands, and his younger brother Ietaka built a shrine in Nama dedicated to an ancestor of the Fujiwara family, “Amatsu Koyane no Mikoto,” who was enshrined as the tutelary god. At its founding, the shrine was named “Hiko no Miya” but was later changed to “Masahiko-gu” and then “Masahiko-jinja” (Masahiko Shrine). There are eight munefuda ceremonial labels from the years Jokyo 2 (1685) to Kaei 7 (1854), which are designated as Town Tangible Cultural Property. These were offered as tokens for the long reign of the lord as well as continued peace. The labels were part of the muneage (ridgepole-raising) at the time of the shrine’s construction and sengu (ceremonial rebuilding), and served as a prayer to the emperor during a time when villains ran amok. The labels record the feudal official ranks and names of those relevant to the shrine at the time. In Heisei 11 (2010), the shrine’s 800th anniversary...

【政彦神社】 創建の時期は明らかではないが、 承元三年(1209年)藤原通高が小値賀島、 浦部(今の中通島)両島の地頭職として 来往した折、 この地に社殿を造営し「政彦宮」として 藤原氏の氏神である天児屋根命を祀った 事に始まると伝えられている。

通高は奈摩郡に住し、 その弟家高は青方郡に移住して、 青方を氏とした。

通高は後年家督を家高に譲り、 青方家が代々受け継いだ。

【御祭神】 天児屋根命　(アメノコヤネノミコト)

【祭礼日】 10月27・28日　(例祭) 7月14...

鬼瓦や七福神、奈摩郷の五賢人を紹介した石碑などがあり、さらに神楽も行う...