Cultural Assets－Temples and Shrines

Home to the guardian deity of Nakatsugawa, this shrine is an important Shugendo training site. According to an account in the Kii Shoku-fudoki (an early 19th century geography record), Shogo-in Temple repaired the shrine after it was damaged: “Shogo-in made repairs when the shrine was damaged. Every year the leaders of Shogo-in Temple and Sanbo-in Temple pray before god and perform a Daigoma ritual.” The Gomaku ritual is performed currently only in Nakatsugawa Gyoja-do but it is reveraled that it was performed in Kumano Shrine from an illustrated map.