Tomi Shrine is a shrine located in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture. The date of its founding is unknown, but according to shrine tradition, it has been located on Mt. Tomi since ancient times. Mt. Tomi is said to be the spiritual site (matsurinowa) where the first Emperor Jimmu enshrined the ancestral gods and Amatsukami in the spring of the fourth year of his reign. The Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) describes that the ancestral gods were enshrined for the first time after his enthronement, which is the origin of the Daijosai (Great Thanksgiving Festival). Until the Meiji era, it was called Notomiya. This offering is a set of two items: a goshuin (shrine stamp) and a history booklet. Tomi Shrine, a power spot with a history of over a thousand years, is located at the western foot of Mt. Tomi, a very historic shrine. Mt. Tomi is said to be the place where the first Emperor Jimmu, who was enthroned at Kashihara Palace, established the matsuri-niwa (sacred place), and it can be said to be the sacred ground of the founding of the nation. Its history is ancient, already listed in the Engishiki Jinmyocho (a list of shrines compiled in the early 10th century), and it is an old shrine that has inherited a history and tradition of over a thousand years to the present day. <Tomi Shrine, famous for its alien-like clay figure> By the way, the last photo is of a clay figure of Yatagarasu, the image character of Tomi Shrine. According to the "Sakurai City History," it was unearthed from under the dead stump of the Iware no Matsu (pine tree) within the grounds of the Shimotsuo Shrine in the first year of Genbun (1736).