Kurami Shrine (倉見神社)
The torii of Sengen Okami and Kurami Shrine Honden of Kurami Shrine Located in the Kurami area of Samukawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, near the tracks of the Tokaido Shinkansen, is a Shinto shrine called Kurami Shrine (倉見神社), which enshrines the kami (deities) Amaterasu Omikami (天照皇大神) and Kumano Kamurogi no Mikoto (熊野加武呂伎命). The exact founding date of the shrine is unclear. It is said that when Nakayama Hikohachiro (中山彦八郎), a retainer of the Odawara Hojo clan, governed Kurami Village, he enshrined the kami of Shinmei-sha (神明社) and Kumano-sha (熊野社), which are believed to be the origins of the shrine. In 1869, Shinmei-sha and Kumano-sha were merged with several smaller shrines in the village and renamed Kurami Okami (倉見大神). Haiden of Kurami Shrine In 1895, during the reconstruction of the main hall of Samukawa-jinja Shrine , the former structure was relocated to Kurami Okami and repurposed as its honden (main sanctuary). It is said to be the oldest existing building in Samukaw...
