land border between Settsu Province and Kawachi Province in March 788. The purpose was to develop new agricultural land and ward off water damage. Part of the process involved praying for success at the shrine. Along with this, the name of the area was changed from Kobore (古保礼) to Kawahara. Nine centuries later, a donation from Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元, 1556-1615,) enabled the construction of a splendid new prayer hall linked to the main hall by a connecting passageway. The Katagiri clan served the Minamoto Clan, and Katsumoto himself is probably best remembered as being one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake, a group of samurai who served as personal bodyguards to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the Battle of Shizugatake in 1583. Slightly over a century later, in 1689, Susanono Mitoko (素盞鳴尊) the enfant terrible of the Japanese pantheon, was jointly enshrined. In 1907 Shimizudani Inari Jinja, which is thought to have been the tutelary shrine inside Ōsaka Castle, was merged into the shrine and the current name of Kobore Inari Jinja was adopted. The prayer hall, which had existed since the sixteenth century, was destroyed during the US bombing raids of 1945. Reconstruction was completed in 1950.