Tsukubusuma Shrine - Tsukubusuma Shrine

Japanese: 都久夫須麻神社 - つくぶすまじんじゃ

Located on Chikubu Island in Lake Biwa, Biwa Town, Shiga Prefecture (now Nagahama City). Former prefectural shrine. Shikinaisha. The water goddess Azaihime-no-mikoto (the main deity) was enshrined here from ancient times, and people prayed for the safety of lake traffic. Meanwhile, it became a training ground for mountain ascetic monks from the Nara period, and from the Heian period onwards, the area saw the development of Shinto-Buddhist syncretism, with Benzaiten being enshrined as the local Buddha, and the shrine was called Chikubushima Gongen and Chikubushima Benzaitensha, with a monk from the shrine temple Hogonji serving as its head priest. Until the early modern period, the two were worshipped together as Chikubushima. During the Meiji period, the shrine was separated from Buddhism and Shinto by separating Buddhism and Shinto, and the Benzaiten Hall became the main hall. The main hall is a national treasure, and is said to have been relocated from part of Toyokuni-byo (Toyokuni Shrine) in Kyoto by Toyotomi Hideyori. The temple is connected to the neighboring Kannon Hall of Hogonji Temple (Important Cultural Property) by a corridor with a boat-bottom ceiling (Important Cultural Property). The Karamon Gate (the Karamon Gate of Toyokuni Shrine was relocated here) and the Heian period decorative Lotus Sutra known as the "Chikubushimakyo" are national treasures, as well as a Kamakura period colored silk Nyoirin Kannon statue and a stone five-story pagoda, among other Important Cultural Properties.

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Japanese:

滋賀県びわ町（現・長浜市），琵琶湖中に浮かぶ竹生(ちくぶ)島に鎮座。旧県社。式内社。古来当地には水神浅井姫命(あざいひめのみこと)（主祭神）が祀られ，湖上交通の安全が祈られていた。一方奈良時代から修験僧の行場となり，平安時代以降には〈神仏習合(しんぶつしゅうごう)〉が進み，弁財天を本地仏として祀り，竹生島権現・竹生島弁才天社と称し，神宮寺の宝厳(ほうごん)寺僧が別当を務めた。近世までは〈竹生島〉として両者一体で信仰された。当社は明治の〈神仏分離〉で弁才天堂を本殿として独立。本殿は豊臣秀頼(とよとみひでより)が京都の豊国(ほうこく)廟（豊国神社）の一部を移建したものとされ国宝。隣接する宝厳寺観音堂（重要文化財）へは舟底天井の渡廊（重要文化財）でつながる。同寺の唐門（豊国廟唐門を移建），〈竹生島経〉と呼ばれる平安期の装飾法華経は国宝，ほかに鎌倉期の絹本着色如意輪観音像・石造五重塔など重要文化財が多い。

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