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Masumida Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the city of Ichinomiya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As the name of the city implies, the shrine is the ichinomiya of former Owari Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on April 3.Enshrined ''kami''The primary kami of Masumida Jinja is Amenoho no Akari no mikoto, who appears in the Kujiki as a descendant of Amaterasu, and the ancestor of the Owari clan, the prehistoric rulers of the area.HistoryThe date of Masumida Shrine’s foundation is unknown. Shrine tradition and the Kujiki records give the unlikely date of 628 BC. The shrine is mentioned s in the early Heian period Engishiki records and in the Yamato Takeru myth cycle. It has been styled as the ichinomiya of Owari Province since at least the end of the Heian period, and enjoyed the patronage of the Oda clan, and subsequently the Tokugawa shogunate until the end of the Edo period.After the Meiji Restoration, it was granted the rank of ''Kokuhei Chūsha (2nd rank National Shrine) under State Shinto in 1875.