Tsurugi Shrine

is a Shinto shrine located in Ota, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.https://web.archive.org/web/20220120150410/https://info.pref.fukui.lg.jp/hyakkei/40_english/010_view/pdf/062.pdf It is a Beppyo shrine, or a shrine that is particularly notable in a certain way with a significant history to it. It is a Ninomiya, or a second rank shrine in its province after the Ichinomiya. In the Modern system of ranked Shinto shrines it was a Kokuhei Shōsha (national shrine of lower rank), and it is now listed as a Beppyo shrine of the Association of Shinto Shrines.

It is the Ninomiya of Echizen Province

Oda Nobunaga descended from priests of the shrine. He considered it his ancestral shrine.

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 Other websites 
 Tsurugi Shrine - Official Site
 Sword Shrine - Kokugakuin University 21st Century COE Program "Shinto Shrine Historical Materials Collection"

Category:Beppyo shrines
Category:Kokuhei Shōsha
Category:Ni-no-Miya
Category:Fukui Prefecture
Category:Shikinai Shōsha
Category:Shikinaisha in Echizen Province