Another Ohatsutenjin shrine, for Prostitutes.

There is a place in Umeda, Osaka, that has been famous for more than 300 years.

That is Sonezaki.

Ohatsu and Tokubee, who love each other, are helpless in their desperate situation and double suicide in the forest of Sonezaki.

It was a real story.

The genius novelist at that time condensed them into joruri puppets to express sadness, impermanence, and anger.

The people of that time were enthusiastic and saddened by their unfortunate deaths.

Ohatsu and tokubee are enshrined to Ohatsu tenjin(Tsuyu tenjin shrine)

It is famous as a power spot shrine for lovers during the day, but at night it has another aspect.

Since Ohatsu was a prostitute, it is also enshrined as a guardian deity for prostitutes.

There is no article on the web about it, but it is also true that the bar owners or the prostitutes visit the shrine before going to work at night.

Umeda’s restaurant district grew up around Ohatsu Tenjin.

Since people have been coming to Ohatsu Tenjin for worship for a long time, it was natural for restaurants to spread around there.

Having satisfied their appetites in that district, the lovers satisfied their sexual desires in the love hotel district of Togano block area on the right street on Ohatsu tenjin.

Togano block area also became a gathering place for sex workers due to its many love hotel districts.

Merchants who made a huge fortune from rice trading developed high-end restaurants in Sonezaki-shinchi, and even after the war, they were used by wealthy people and businesses.

How to get to ohatsu tenjin shrine

Due to the lack of a typical shrine gate, it is a little difficult to find the ohatsu tenjin.

From the Ohatsutenjin restaurant street, which we often go to, we can’t recognize it as a shrine

You enter the precinct like you are walking into a crack in a building.

So it feels somewhat like it’s not a shrine.

Then, a woman who looked like a prostitute appeared, and she quickly passed through the gate and went to pray.

She prayed at the main shrine and disappeared somewhere else again.

So, walking from Yodoyabashi to Umeda, this entrance is easy to find.

The entrance here feels like a typical shrine.

You can go to the main shrine as it is, so you can visit and go home.

The stamp of tsuyu tenjin shrine is very gorgeous.

Ryoko is a person who collects the red stamp of shrines.

She has two or more red stamp books.

Most shrines have two colors of red and black for the stamp.

But Tsuyu tenjin shrine has a colorful stamp.

It was full of a service spirit that did not let people get bored, just like Osaka.

Day and Night shrine

This was a shrine with two faces, Day and Night.

Day time is a lover’s sanctuary shrine.

At night, the shrine becomes a guardian angel who protects prostitutes.

For both, it was an important god for women.

After praying, let’s go to eat okonomiyaki near that shrine.→Okonomiyaki, Yukari

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