Oshioi Shrine original amulets
〈Shark and shrine crest amulet〉
At Oshioi Shrine, stories have long been told of people who behaved selfishly around the shrine or disrespectfully in front of the goddess, and were punished by the goddess. It is said that on one occasion, a large shark jumped out from the main shrine and biting someone who was disrespectful, and that the shark was purge evils and the messenger of goddess who corrects the path.
Additionally, at the autumn festival, the “Koreisai,” held on November 3rd, shark fillets used to be offered to the goddess.
This amulet is an original “sharks crest” amulet of Oshioi Shrine, based on this tradition and the shrine’s crest, Mitsudomoe.
〈Sendan flowers and Oshioi pond amulet〉
The pond on the east side of the main shrine building, which has been called Oshioi-ike since ancient times. The current name of the shrine comes from the pond. According to the shrine’s legend, when Tagorihime-no-Mikoto, the deity of the shrine, appeared at there, she draped her white robe in the pond and hung it on a branch of the Japanese bead tree “sendan”.
This is an original amulet of Oshioi Shrine, decorated with sendan flowers and the pond, in honor of this legend.