Initially, the shrine worshipped the god of the Hata clan, a powerful clan who had ruled the Kyoto district, and its extant Shake (a family of Shinto priests serving a shrine on a hereditary basis) is the Onishi family. |
元々は京都一帯の豪族・秦氏の氏神であり、現存する旧社家は大西家である。 |