Okitsushima-jinja Shrine (奥津嶋神社)
Okitsushima-jinja Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Okishima-cho, Omi Hachiman City, Shiga Prefecture. It is said that it was built in 712. It is a Myojin Taisha Shrine listed in Engishiki (one of the earliest extant written records of imperial court etiquette compiled in the Engi era) laws. It was a prefectural shrine in the old classification of shrines.
The enshrined deity
Okitsushimanohime no Mikoto
The crest for the shrine
sasa-rindo (bamboo grass and gentians)
Festival
Reisai (regular festival)
It is held on May 8.
The shrines in the precincts
Itsukushima-jinja Shrine
Yamagami-jinja Shrine
Cultural properties and others
Shaki (history of the shrine) (in 1525)
Benzaiten (a female deity)-ki (book) (in 1734)