Mikami Shrine

Mikami Shrine (Japanese: 御上神社), is a Shintoist shrine in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. A Kanpei-taisha, it is located at the foot of Mount Mikami (432 meters above sea level), a prominent hill in this flat area near Lake Biwa.

The shrine's legends tell that it was established when Ame-no-mikage-no-mikoto, Amaterasu's grandson, came down on Mout Mikami, as its Shintai, during the reign of Emperor Kōrei of the third century B.C., and that a building of worship was built by Fujiwara no Fuhito in the current place ca. 700 A.D. The shrine appears in the "Shrines Volume" of the "Engishiki (Japanese: 延喜式", "Procedures of the Engi Era") of the tenth century A.D.

The shrine's main building, built in the Kamakura Period, is a National Treasure. There are other Important Cultural Properties in the shrine compound.

The "Zuiki Festival of Mikami", celebrated every October as a harvesting festival, is an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. The rice for Emperor Showa's first Niiname Festival in 1925 was grown in a paddy field nearby, which is celebrated every year in June by a rice planting ceremony.

The Worship Building, an Important Cultural Property (where weddings are often held)

Mount Mikami, as the Shrine's Shintai

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