smallpox shrine

Smallpox is smallpox, and in the past it was feared as a deadly disease. Legend has it that this shrine was built on the site where the daughter of Tokiwa Gozen, the concubine of Taira no Kiyomori, who died of smallpox, was buried. The beloved daughter of her father, Taira no Kiyomori, and her mother, Tokiwa Gozen, was very cute and was called the ``Heavenly Princess,'' but she often fell ill from an early age, and by the time she was around the age she contracted smallpox, which was feared as an incurable disease. It's gone. Her father, Kiyomori, tried to cure the princess's illness by gathering doctors from all over Japan, but to no avail, and decided that the only thing left to do was to rely on the gods. The princess was brought by ship from the capital of . After praying to all the shrines and Buddhas in Miyajima, head back home.