Oguri Shrine (Yugun Shrine)

"Having put up a banner
At the guardian deity of my family
The following of rice plant"
(Shiki)

This Haiku was composed in 1953 (Showa 28) by Shiki because of that Yugun Shrine was the guardian deity of Masaoka Family.The following Haiku is one of the Shiki's Haiku as to this Shrine with the foreword of "Oguri Shrine".

 "In the morning and evening
         "The song at the rice-planting have just
                  Come to God's ears"  

(Composed in 1892 (Meiji 25) )

"Oguri Shrine" was called "Oguri right Hachiman Shrine" and the one of the "Matsuyama eight Hachiman Shrine". It was renamed "Yugun Shrine".
Mainly shrined gods were the three gods of Hachiman, Chuai Emperor, Oujin Emperor and Jingu Empress. In the Keicho period, This shrine had the war damages and lost all treasures. And its land were all changed into the rice fields.

Matsuyama eight Hachiman Shrine

 " The collection of proverbs in the Iyo Taiyo Temples said that the eight
Hachiman Shrines and  forty-nine Yakushi Hall were built by the chief of
Iyo-country, Yoriyoshi Minamoto.
  The first : Yutsuki Hachiman (Isaniha) in Dogo Sakuradani
  The second Kuwabara Hachiman in Hatadera-cho
  The third:Hio Hachiman in Minami-Kume
  The fourth Sei Hachiman (Oguri Shrine : Yugun Shrine) in Oguri-cho
  The fifth NIsho Hachiman in Homen-cho
  The sixth Yamasaki Hachiman (Asahi Hachiman) in Minami-Edo
  The seventh Kikuma Hachiman (Kankuma Hachiman) in Miyuki-cho
  The eighth Katsuyama Hachiman (in  Anumami Shrine) in Misaka-cho

 We can make a circle ; Going out of Kuwabara, Nichio, Sei-Hachiman, 
Nisho, Asahi, and return to Katsuyama.