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於岩稲荷田宮神社

Tōkyō-to, Shinjuku-ku, Samon-cho 17  東京都新宿区左門町17

Oiwa Inari Tamiya Jinja

Nearest station:  Yotsuye-sanchome  Line: Marunouchi Subway 

Sacred Tokyo 40 Shinto Shrines

This is the second of the Oiwa Inari Jinja. As its history is essentially the same as that of the Shinkawa Oiwa Inari Jinja I have not reproduced it here. The following text is translation of the  newspaper clipping posted to a board in the shrine about a ninth generation Oiwa descendant, Tamiya Fusa  (田宮 房).
Around the middle of the Meiji Period she was well known as a beautiful woman and as a master of the feminine arts. The latter gave her easy access to the long-established Date family mansion (Date-shi, 伊達氏) as a teacher of Japanese dancing, the tea ceremony, and singing accompanied by the samisen (naga-uta, 長唄). One of her more intimate dancing partners was Onoe Kikugoro V (五代目尾上菊五郎), a well-known kabuki actor, and she occasionally appeared on stage with him. Sometimes depicted in multi-colour woodblock prints (nishiki-e, 錦絵), she was also thought of highly in the
Rokumeikan social circles, but sadly passed away at the young age of 34.

Enshrined Kami:  

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Toyōuke-hime-Okami         豊受比売大神

Tamiya-Oiwa-Mikoto           田宮於岩命

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