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※The writing method "Tokyo Suitengu" may not be familiar, but in this article we will also mention Kurume's Suitengu So Hongu, so I will write Kurume as Suitengu and Kakigara-cho as Tokyo Suitengu. At present (2020), all notations on the precincts of Tokyo Suitengu seem to be unified in "Suitengu", but until a while ago, there were times when the company crest was used properly with the banner like the right. (From Tabizuto's blog)

There was a family named Akamatsu, who is famous as a Sengoku daimyo, based on the flow of Genji. At the beginning of the Muromachi period (14th century), it is said that the fifth son of Norisuke Akamatsu, Yoshisuke Akamatsu, was assigned to the head of the state-owned horse-gun in Settsu, and came to give the surname "Arima". However, the legitimate style (Honke's family line) was cut off during the era of Nobunaga Oda, and Arima-gun, which had been based for 200 years, was also lost.

※The image on the left is Norisuke Akamatsu. There is a three-way crest on the chest. (Source: 10 species of Shuko ~ wikipedia)

However, the father and son of Noriyori Arima and Toyo, who were common schools (the lineage of the branch family), were originally served Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Shuji, but were given to the Eastern Army (Ieyasu) in the battle of Sekigahara, and his father Noriyori was given back 20,000 stones in Arima-gun, the former land of the Arima family. After the child Yutaka was given 60,000 stones of the Fukuchiyama clan, Arima-gun also became 80,000 stones of feudal lord after the death of Noriyori.

After that, Toyo also made achievements at the Osaka camp, and this time he was relocated as a daimyo of the 210,000 stones of the Kurume clan in Fukuoka, and the history of the Arima family in Kurume feudal lord. It was 1620.

As a result of such circumstances, it is customary that the first generation of the Settsu Arima family is Noriyori and the first generation of feudal lord is Yutaka. In an interview with Arima Yorio Miyaji (AERA.dot), Mr. Yoyo is said to be "16th generation", and this is the 16th generation "as feudal lord".

The story goes back to the end of the Heian period. Emperor Antoku, who died in the Battle of Dan-no-ura (1185), and his mother: Takakura Hiranakagu, Grandmother: A small shrine called "Namagozen Shrine", which enshrines the three second-ranked nuns, was originally located in Kurume, Kyushu. It is said that the female officer who served Takakura Hiranakagu Shrine, Ise of the Anciation Bureau, fell to Kurume and opened. .

Under Ise, Hiraemon Tadashi, a member of Taira, visited, and the Maki family, whose father was Udachu, protected Amagozen Shrine for generations.

In the Edo period, Tadayori, the third generation of the Arima family, who began building ground in Kurume, protected Amagozen Shrine, built a fine shrine hall in its current location (Seshita-cho, Kurume-shi), and renamed it Suitengu.

It's an interesting combination that the Arima family related to Genji protected the shrine related to Taira.

The shrine crest of So Motomiya Suitengu is a camellia flower crest, but this is one of the many legends of Emperor Antoku nationwide, "In fact, Emperor Antoku did not die in Dan-no-ura, but fell near Kurume, and later fell in love with a woman named Tamae, and compared the beauty of the woman to camellia flowers. "

When Amagozen Shrine became a Suitengu Shrine, in addition to the three people who were originally enshrined in connection with the Heike, one of the enshrined deity of Arima Shrine in Arima no Sato, the birthplace of the Arima family, Amano Mikanushi no Kami, was enshrined as main deity.

After that, Suitengu will have many branch offices throughout Japan, mainly in Kyushu, and the total Motomiya is Kurume's Suitengu.

※The image is Kurume's Soto Motomiya Suitengu Shrine. From wikipedia.

In the first year of Bunsei (1818), the 9th generation Yorinori Arima, feudal lord, recommended the spirit of Suitengu to the Edo mansion of the Kurume Domain in Mita, at the beginning of Suitengu Shrine in Tokyo. (In the history of Nihonbashi Ward, there was a description that it was a place of worship, not a branch of worship.)

General worship was not possible because it was inside the clan residence, but many people throw money over the fence because it was reputed for "the spirit of safe delivery." Finally, when it was released only on the 5th of every month, 2,000 coins were collected annually by offerings and selling lucky items, which was also a valuable side income of the Kurume clan, which was also financially difficult at the time.

Crossing the Meiji Restoration (1868), the Kurume clan was in a torrent. The rejection of the kings and the Sakuma faction were fighting violently.

Yoshiyori Arima of feudal lord at that time. Later Yorikan: Renamed Yoshige) seems to have been a conservative or nonpolis, eliminating Yasuomi Maki (Izumi Maki), the leader of the rejection group. As you can see from the name "Maki", he was a priest of Suitengu.

After participating in the forbidden gate change (1864), Izumi Maki was committed to suicide following the pursuit of the Aizu clan and Shinsengumi. It is a rejection group that once lost its power, but gained strength again at the same time as the Meiji Restoration. It's natural that the "Son King" has been realized. However, they were dissatisfied with the fact that the Meiji government moved to the country instead of "Joi" and were involved in the anti-government coup.

However, this was left by the new government at the planning stage. It is the so-called "Kurume clan difficulties." As a result, Kurume Castle may be temporarily occupied by the Kumamoto clan, which was ordered by the Meiji government.

Yorikan himself, who should have been on the Shogunate side, stood on the new government side at the same time as the restoration and was also appointed governor of the Kurume clan, but was pursued for the responsibility of this case and decided to be modest. Edo Yashiki has also been confiscated.

The right is a photo of Yorikan Arima! That's right. (From wikipedia)

Yoriham himself was dismissed as the governor of the clan by the abolished feudal prefecture, and was treated as a Chinese tribe.

However, due to the confiscation of the mansion, the Suitengu Shrine, which was enshrined inside the mansion, was also relocated.

In the case of Yoriham, the attempted coup by the subjects was the reason for confiscation of the mansion, but the Edo mansion of the daimyo was provided by Tokugawa shogunate. At the same time as the Meiji Restoration, most Edo mansions were requisitioned by the new government, became government offices, and were repaid to influential people in the private sector. That's why most of the real estate in central Tokyo is owned by former conglomerate developers.

Also, most daimyo returned to the country at the same time as the Edo mansion was requisitioned. However, Yoriham did not return to Kurume, but chose the way to remain in Tokyo. In 1871, after the confiscation of Mita Yashiki, he moved to Aoyama for the time being, and the following year, he settled down at the residence of Kumanojo Toda in Kakigara-cho, Nihonbashi-ku.

It is only a guess why Yorikan, who was also the "Governor of the Kurume Domain", did not return to the country, but it may have been difficult to return to the place where blood flowed to both the rejection and the Sakuma faction of the subjects. .

・・・ Yoriham lived such a turbulent life, but after calming down in Kakigara-cho, he was grateful for donating a large amount of money to establish a local elementary school and asked the school name "Arima" (Currently Arima Elementary School), became famous as an "educational wealthy asset."

The figure above is Suitengu in the early Meiji era, called "Ningyocho-dori Kakiuricho Mizutengu Shrine Visiting Group Map" by the fourth generation Kunimasa Utagawa. In this picture, "Hyakufuku's upper left corner" and "Senshorinshu" are gathered on the banner of lucky items, "Hyakufuku's top left corner". You can see the crest. (Source: TOKYO DIGITAL MUSEUM)

Is "Sensho Unshu" a more popular word? I thought, but according to a blog by Miko of Suitengu, it was "Sensho Rinshu".

Arima Yorikan appears as if he had lost his relationship with his hometown in the turbulence of late Tokugawa shogunate. And Tokyo Suitengu Shrine was with Yoriham.

Considering that, the fact that the shrine crest of Tokyo Suitengu Shrine is the one that adds the crest of the Arima family head to the shrine crest of Suitengu Shrine is probably included in the assertion that the Arima family is here. It may be. (It's just an individual's impression.)

The Arima family later produced a masterpiece named Yoriyasu Arima, the 15th generation (Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Director of the Central Horse Racing Association: Arima Memorial Race commemorates Yorining, professional baseball: owner of Tokyo Senators, etc.) At the land readjustment, Suitengu Shrine, which was originally located in the inner part of Kakigara-cho, decided to prosper at the Shin-ohashi-dori intersection and St Doll Street.

The photo above is an enlarged demon board of the current Suitengu shrine. The three-way crest is shining brightly.

Last year, when I went on a business trip to Osaka, I went a little further and visited Arima Shrine in Hyogo Prefecture.

Arima Shrine itself is a venerable shrine with a very long history, which is also a Shikinai shrine (a shrine whose name is listed in the Engi era shrine name book selected in 927).

At present, the Kobe Railway Mita Line and National Route 15 have cut off the approach to connecting resting place of portable shrines and main hall, and the area around the nearest station, Okaba Station, is becoming a new town, but still standing around resting place of portable shrines and looking at the shrine (right), it was a shrine that stood quietly in a deep mountain village for more than a thousand years.

Arima in Hyogo Prefecture, Kurume in Fukuoka, and Kakigara-cho in Tokyo. It was quite impressive to think that history was connected across hundreds of kilometers from each other.

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