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Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture

[Joshu, Echigo, SadoNiigata, YahikoNiigata, Yahiko]

Temples and Shrines・Buddhist Temples

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Otogodinjasouan

official name：Otoko Shrine Hermitage

English name：Otoko Shrine Hermitage

Otoko Shrine Soan

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    • Temples and Shrines・Buddhist Temples
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    • Shinto Shrine・Buddhist Temple
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    The shrine office of Otogo Shrine, located at the foot of Kugami Mountain, a place associated with Ryokan, the place where Ryokan's art reached its maturity. In the 13th year of Bunka era (1816). When Ryokan was 59 years old, he moved to this shrine office of Otogo Shrine because the old Gogo-an (hermitage) had become decrepit and the morning and evening climb up and down the mountain slope was too much for his old body. The ten years here are considered to be the mature period of Ryokan's art, and it is said that Ryokan read his last days in poetry here. In the precincts of the temple, there is a stone monument erected in 1858 that reads, “Syogai Ranritsuzin,Toutou Tensinni Nitashite”*. It is It is believed to be the oldest existing Ryokan poetry monument. The hermitage was rebuilt in 1987. Otogo means “youngest child” in Otogo Shrine, which enshrines Amaterasu Omikami and Takemorozumi no Mikoto, the youngest son of Yahiko Shrine's deity, Amenokagoyama no Mikoto. *: “Lazy to stand for his whole life, he is to be trusted to the Lord's will.

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    Otoko Shrine Hermitage
    Location
    Domestic Land, Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture

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    10 minutes by car from Bunsui Station on the JR Echigo Line 30 minutes by car from Sanjo Tsubame IC on the Hokuriku Expressway.
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    • Tsubame City Tourism Promotion Division Tourism Planning Section
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      0256-77-8233
      FAX
      0256-77-8306