Suwa Shrine
Aside from Suwa Shrine, "Nangū" was also applied to Kanayamahiko Shrine in Mino Province (modern Nangū Taisha in Gifu Prefecture) and Aekuni Shrine (南宮大菩薩, "Nangū Daibosatsu") in Iga Province (modern Mie Prefecture). A song in the late Heian period anthology "Ryōjin Hishō" associates the three shrines together, with Suwa Shrine being identified as the "head" of the three "Nangū" shrines (南宮の本山, "nangu no honzan"), the shrine at Mino as the "midmost shrine" (中の宮, "naka no miya"), and the shrine at Iga as the "youngest shrine" (稚の宮, "chigo no miya")"."