Fukunaga Shrine
福長神社
This small Shinto shrine, depicted in a famous painting, protects neighborhood wells.
What it is
- Small Shinto sanctuary.
- Founded in the Heian period (794–1185).
- Dedicated to five deities, including water guardians.
- Depicted in a 16th-century painting by Kano Eitoku.
What to see
- Small Shinto sanctuary building.
- Quiet neighborhood setting.
Getting there
- Located just east of Muromachi street.
In detail
Fukunaga Shrine is a small Shinto sanctuary tucked away in a residential neighborhood just east of Muromachi street. Its history goes back to the Heian period (794–1185), when five deities were enshrined within the inner part of the imperial palace to protect various parts of the complex.
Two of these deities, Sakui and Tsunagai, were guardians of water in general and wells in particular. They are thought to have been moved to a shrine of their own—this one—at some point during the sixteenth century. Fukunaga Shrine is depicted in Scenes in and around the Capital, a famous folding-screen painting by Kano Eitoku (1543–1590) that portrays central Kyoto from a bird’s-eye perspective.
Fukunaga Shrine originally stood on spacious grounds that were reduced to their current size after much of the city burned down in a fire in 1788. The shrine now watches over the wells of its quiet neighborhood, rather than the wellbeing of the imperial family.
Text: 観光庁 地域観光資源の多言語解説文データベース. Reproduced unchanged. The notes above were written from that text by Japan Gems.
Where it is
京都府京都市上京区室町通武者小路下ル福長町538 Open in Google Maps
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