Oda Shrine - Otajinja

Japanese: 織田神社 - おたじんじゃ

This shrine is located in Oda-cho, Nyu-gun, Fukui Prefecture, and is properly called Tsurugi-jinja. The deities enshrined are Susanoo-no-mikoto, Kehi-no-Okami, and Oshikuma-no-mikoto. It is said that the shrine was named Tsurugi-jinja because Emperor Ojin's brother Oshikuma-no-mikoto was given a sacred sword by the shrine's chief deity, Susanoo-no-mikoto, and used it to defeat bandits. It was called the second shrine in Echizen Province, and later became a small, national shrine. In 771 (Hōki 2), an imperial decree was issued to grant food and rice fields to Tsurugi-jinja, and according to a temple bell (national treasure) inscribed with the date of September 11, 770, which is in the shrine's possession, there was a shrine temple called Tsurugi-miko-ji.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

福井県丹生郡織田町にある神社で，正しくは劔（つるぎ）神社という。祭神は素盞嗚尊（すさのおのみこと），気比大神，忍熊王（おしくまのみこ）で，応神天皇の兄の忍熊王が当社主神の素盞嗚尊より霊剣を賜って賊を討った由緒により劔神社と称すると伝える。越前国二宮といい，のち国幣小社となる。771年(宝亀2)に，詔により劔神社に食封，田を宛つとみえ，また社蔵の神護景雲4年(770)9月11日の銘のある梵鐘(国宝)によれば〈劔御子寺〉という神宮寺があった。

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