Shiroyama Sengen Shrine

This Sengen shrine stands on Shiroyama in Fujinomiya (the old Ōmiya district). The name Shiroyama, castle hill, seems to come from Ōmiya Castle, the residence of the Fuji Grand Priest family. The castle site (the former residence of the Fuji Grand Priests) is around Ōmiya Elementary School, about 150 metres east of the Mitarashi Bridge at Sengen Taisha. It was in this castle that the Grand Priest Fuji Nobutada held out against the attacks of Takeda Shingen’s army when Shingen invaded Suruga.

In Ōmiya, shrines to the children of Asama no Ōkami (Konohanasakuya-hime) were placed around Sengen Taisha. Wakanomiya (Ichiōji) enshrines the first child deity, and Ninomiya the second. A list of the shrine’s lands in the early modern period mentions “seventy-five festivals a year”, and the rites of the great shrine went on throughout the year.

Inside the shrine building are a photograph of Mt. Fuji and a lava stone.