Shoin-jinja Shrine
Shoin-jinja Shrine is a shrine that takes Yoshida Shoin, who largely influenced the feudal warriors of the Choshu Domain who were engaged in the Meiji restoration ideologically, as its enshrined deity.
Shoin, who was an activist himself, died a violent death at the young age of 30 in the Ansei Purge.
Initially, he was buried at Eko-in Temple in Senju as a criminal.
His disciples, Shinsaku Takasugi and Ito Hirobumi, appealed to various places and reburied him at the Kakaeyashiki residence of the Mori family, and after the Meiji period started, it was built as a shrine.
The 26 hanging lanterns that were donated display the names of prominent people such as the elder statesmen of the Meiji restoration, Ito Hirobumi, Yamagata Aritomo, and Inoue Kaoru, as well as Taro Katsura and Maresuke Nogi from Choshu.
In addition, other than the graveyard of Kido Takayoshi, who was Shoin's disciple, the torii donated by Kido also remains.
In recent years, many students preparing for examinations and so on have been visiting it as it supposedly blesses visitors in the field of learning.
