Kibune, Kyoto – Virtual Walking Tour – 京都貴船《4K》

貴船神社のある「京都・貴船」をぶらり
Kifune Shrine《4K》Virtual Tour in Kibune Village, Kyoto

History:
Believed to have been founded over 1,600 years ago, Kifune Shrine is strongly associated with water in the form of rain and sea, which means that it was exceedingly important to the Japanese who relied on water as a precious and fickle commodity in agriculture. Legend says that the goddess Tamayori-hime (Princess Tamayori, mother of the legendary first emperor of Japan, Jimmu) appeared on a yellow boat in Osaka Bay and declared that the people were to build a shrine wherever the boat’s journey ended and enshrine the local deities of that place to ensure the prosperity of the country. The boat is then said to have travelled up the Yodo River to the Kamogawa in Kyoto and come to rest at the site of the present Kifune Shrine’s Okunomiya, where it’s said the boat remains to this day, buried beneath a stone cairn. The people did as they were instructed and built a hall on the spot to enshrine the local god Takaokami no Kami, a god worshipped as one in charge of providing water.
(*source: https://www.discoverkyoto.com/places-go/kifune-shrine/)

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