Tomioka Hachiman Shrine 3.97

is the largest Hachiman Shrine in Tokyo.HistoryThe shrine was founded in 1627 with reclamation of the shoal. The God Hachiman whom the shrine reveres was also a local Shinto deity of the Minamoto clan thus the shinto shrine received cordial protection by the Tokugawa shogunate. On other hand, the shrine was revered from the people of shitamachi, and familiar as "Hachiman of Fukagawa".At the Meiji period, the shrine lost the cordial protection like Edo period, but was chosen as Tokyo Ten Shrines by the Meiji government though it was the one inferior to Hikawa Shrine and other major shrines in the status that the government had provided.On March 10, 1945, the shrine was burnt down by the bombing of Tokyo. On March 18, the Emperor Hirohito who was inspecting the burnt area visited here and received the explanation about the damage in precincts. At the returning to his palace, the emperor described his impression to Hisanori Fujita, his Grand Chamberlains, compared with Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 had seen in his Crown Prince age:After the war, two stone monuments to commemorate the visit were built in precincts.