Chōkaisan Ōmonoimi Shrine

is a Shinto shrine located on Mount Chōkai.

In the middle ages it became a sacred spot for shugendo, a religion of mountain worship.

People worship a lake called Maruikesama at the shrine. It is a Kannabi and worshippers believe a god lives in it.

It is the Dewa Province Ichinomiya, or the first ranked shrine in the Dewa Province. It is related to the Three Mountains of Dewa https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/id=8579

It has a festival every year on July 14 called Hi-awase shinji. where people light fires for good harvest and good fishing.https://archive.today/20230425181001/https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=9228

It has three subshrines. Fukura-kuchinomiya and Warabioka-kuchinomiya at the foot of the mountain and Sancho-Gohonsha at the peak

It had a legal battle after World War II because people were confused about who owned the summit

 Fukura-kuchinomiya 

Fukura-kuchinomiya is a subshrine located at the foot of the mountain

The Honden is located on a hill and faces southhttps://archive.today/20230411014431/https://okunomichi.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/1301/

Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto is enshrined here

 Sanchō-Gohonsha 

This Shrine is on the peak of Mount Chokai. It was built in 564 in the reign of Emperor Kinmei. It looks like an ordinary cabin on the outsidehttps://archive.today/20230425185131/https://akitajet.com/wiki/Mount_Ch%C5%8Dkai The shrine is rebuilt once every 20 years, it was rebuilt in 1997.

 Warabioka-kuchinomiya 

Warabioka-kuchinomiya is a subshrine located at the foot of the mountain. The shrine worships agricultural deities Toyoke-Ookami and Ukanomitama no Mikoto.

The shrine has four Hokora or small shrines on its grounds.

There is a festival on May 3rd called Daimonbei Matsuri.

There are three torii gates and the movie Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends was filmed there


 Related pages 
 Three Mountains of Dewa
 Gassan Shrine
 Dewa Shrine
 Yudonosan Shrine
Chōkai gassan ryōsho-gu

 References 

Category:Beppyo shrines
Category:Kokuhei Chūsha
Category:Ichinomiya
Category:Myōjin Taisha
Category:Mountain faith
Category:Tōhoku region
Category:Shikinaisha in Dewa Province