#hataage benzaiten sha

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Hataage Benzaiten Sha (旗上弁財天社), a sub-shrine on a small island in Minamoto Pond at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū Shrine (鶴岡八幡宮) in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture: dedicated to the goddess Benzaiten (弁財天) after her oracle to Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝) in 1180, dismantled in 1868 by government order for its hybrid religiosity, and rebuilt in 1956 at the initiative of believers

Image from a booklet acquired at the shrine May 1, 1995, page 8