which will catch the eye of most visitors, although strictly speaking not a jinja, is the one known as Oshiwabuki-sama (おしわぶき様) or Shabuki-sama(しゃぶき)様): it is a representation of a phallus, which, until the Shin-butsu Bunri was housed in a nearby temple,  Kyōtoku-ji (京徳寺). It is described on the shrine's information board as a shintai and as an ishigami (石神, (lit. "stone god".)  Japanese abounds in homophones, and the character for stone, 石 ishi,, can also be read as "seki," meaning cough, which is written with the character 咳, and by a process of transference Oshiwabuki is seen as safeguarding the faithful against coughing and infectious diseases in general.  Additionally, there is a clear link between the phallus and childbirth and Oshiwabuki seen as helping with the latter.