It is the earliest shinto shrine in Korea[1]: 139  built by workers of the local Japan House trade office in 1678.

[2] Such shinto may have served a purpose of expressing and maintaining a Japanese identity outside of Japan, while the Japanese and Korean people lived relatively close during this period.

[3] It was a Kotohira shrine dedicated to Ōmononushi and the protection of sailors.

[2] In addition it, alongside all other nationally ranked shinto shrines in Korea enshrined Amaterasu and Kunitama as a pair.

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