Yokono Shrine former site

This site was originally a shrine of Daichi village in Shibukawa District, Kawachi Province, called Inji no Miya or Nishi no Miya from ancient times, and an old Engishiki shrine whose name is recorded in the register of deities compiled in the Heian period. The deity is Inishiki Iribiko no Mikoto, a son of the eleventh emperor, Suinin, and the precincts originally covered 300 tsubo. Its origin lies in the entry for the thirteenth year of Emperor Nintoku in the Nihon Shoki, 'in winter, in the tenth month, the Yokono embankment was built': a huge levee is said to have been raised to stop the flooding of the Tachibana River, the old Hirano River, which then ran near here, and the shrine began as a prayer for the safety of that embankment and for the river to run gently. In the early Edo period, after the shrine building collapsed, the deity was moved to the precincts of the present Tatsumi Shrine. In the Kyoho era the kokugaku scholar Namikawa Seisho surveyed the site and reported that it was an old shrine of standing, and on that basis the villagers rebuilt it in 1731 with official permission. A miyaza was formed and kept the sacred lamp from then on, but under the shrine merger order of 1907 it was merged into Tatsumi Shrine and abolished. The stele at the front was erected in 1919 by the people of the Yokono-ko miyaza.

Translated from the Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City tourist listings (観光施設一覧, CC BY 4.0).