Category:

Municipally Designated Tangible Cultural Property (Building)

Title:

Omiya hikawa-jinja sessha monkyakujin-jinja honden・sessha amatsu-jinja honden・massha mitake-jinja honden

Omiya Hikawa-jinja Sessha Monkyakujin-jinja Shrine, Sessha Amatsu-jinja Shrine, and Massha Mitake-jinja Shrine
大宮氷川神社摂社門客人神社本殿・摂社天津神社本殿・末社御嶽神社本殿

No. of features:

Three buildings

Designated:

March 30, 2011

Location:

4-1 Takahanacho, Omiya Ward

Owner:

The religious juridical person of Hikawa-jinja Shrine

Description:

These buildings are located within the grounds of Hikawa-jinja Shrine. All three are sangensha nagare-zukuri (buildings with asymmetrical gabled roofs that stretch into a portico over the four-pillared entrances) of similar size.

These shrine buildings are part of a set of four built under the order of Tokugawa Ietsuna, the fourth shogun of the Edo period.

Despite undergoing many repairs after their construction in 1667, they still bear carvings and other architectural features representative of that period.

They remain precious examples of late 17th-century architecture.

Associated Texts:

(2013). “Survey Report on Saitama City’s Cultural Properties” (vol. 11). Saitama Municipal Board of Education.

While visitors are encouraged to admire the outsides of these structures, entrance is forbidden. Please be courteous towards other visitors, locals, and the site’s owners/curators when visiting this cultural property.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

https://www.city.saitama.jp/004/005/006/001/017/010/003/p013322.html