Kumano Nachi Jinja Shrine

A set of shrines and temples atop the peak of Mt. Takadate with the view of the Natori Plain, Sendai Port, Yuriage Beach, and the Sendai Airport spreading out before your eyes. There are six enshrined deities including HaguroHiryuu-no-Okami and Kumano Husumi-no-Okami. It's said that long ago an old woman Natori transferred of the main three Kumano deities to a new location, enshrined a division of the Nachi deity with the three Kumano deities together, and renamed the shrine the Kumano Nachi Jinja Shrine. On the shrine grounds is a large cedar tree that splits into two separate trunks and represents the ideal of bonds and has gained fame as parishioners pray to the tree for marriage. When the front shrine was being relocated in 1898 they discovered the Kumano Nachi Jinja Bronze Mirror which includes a bust of the Buddha and it dated back to the Kamakura/Muromachi period. It has been designated a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan with regards to artistic handicraft.