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is a Shinto shrine in the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.HistoryThe shrine's Heian period connections with the Kyoto and the Imperial family date from its founding in 859 called Iwashimizu Hachimangū-ji dedicated to Buddhism as much as to kami worship.The shrine became the object of Imperial patronage during the early Heian period. In 965, Emperor Murakami ordered that Imperial messengers were sent to report important events to the guardian kami of Japan. These heihaku were initially presented to 16 shrines including the Ōharano Shrine.The shrine's importance and influence grew in succeeding centuries; and its extensive landholdings led to modest conflicts with Minamoto no Yoritomo during the years in which the Kamakura shogunate was establishing itself. The shrine sought to maintain its traditional exemption from contributing to paying the costs of military forces. In time, the bakufu faded away; and the shrine endured.