Permission to build the shrine was granted as Tsugaru Nobumasa's official wife, Manten-hime, was an adopted daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

During the Edo period, due to the Shinbutsu-shūgō system, it was regarded as a Tendai sect Buddhist temple and had several subsidiary chapels and estates for its upkeep.

However, with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the separation of Buddhism from Shinto it was almost destroyed.

In 1953, the Irimoya-style Honden was protected by the government as an Important Cultural Property.

[1] In the early 2000s, the shrine faced severe economic difficulties due to the expansion of a wedding chapel and by 2007 was forced to cease operations and declare bankruptcy.