, also known as is a Shinto shrine located in the hillside community of Yamashina-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. It is a one-bay shrine built in the nagare-zukuri style.
The shrine is a featured cultural monument along the city's "Southern Hills Historical Dream Road" walking course.
Association with the Tōgoro legend
The shrine is notable for its connection with the Kanazawa folk-legend of , a yam-digging (芋堀, imohori) resident of Yamashina (c.716), who found particles of gold when washing yams in a stream near Kanazawa's Kenroku-en park. According to the story, the "kanearai-sawa" (gold-washing stream) was the origin of Kanazawa's name.
History An inscribed plaque in the shrine grounds, written by the , records that Imohori Tōgoro shrine was built in 1931 by the Yamashina Youth Association, who moved a monument commemorating Tōgoro from the nearby Yamashina Shrine to the new location. In 1988 it was renovated and enlarged, with a new shrine building and komainu guardian statues, tōrō stone lanterns, torii gate and chōzubachi hand-washing basin.
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