Tsushima Shrine

Tsushima Shrine is a Shinto temple located in Tsushima, Aichi Prefecture, and serves as the main shrine of the Tsushima Cult's nationwide network of approximately 3,000 shrines, which is the tenth largest in Japan. The primary deities worshipped here are Gozutennō, the god of pestilences, and Susanoo, who have been merged together. Although unsupported by historical evidence, the shrine is said to have been founded by Emperor Kōrei in the third century BCE to worship Gozutennō's violent aspect (aramitama), which stayed at Izumo-taisha, and its calm aspect (nigemitama), which arrived in Japan from the Korean peninsula after stopping in Tsushima Island.