[1] The kami enshrined at Tada Jinja are: In 970, Settsu-no-kami Minamoto no Mitsunaka, the founder of the Seiwa Genji clan, received an oracle from Sumiyoshi Ōkami to established his residence in what is now Kawanishi.

A temple (commonly known as Tada-in) was built, as Mitsunaka, converted to Buddhism following the visit of Ingen (954–1028), Genshin (942–1017), and Kaku'ub, of the Tendai sect.

In the Kamakura period, the temple was regarded as the ancestral mausoleum of Seiwa-Genji, but it gradually declined.

Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna granted an estate with a kokudaka of 500 koku for its upkeep, and most of its structures were rebuilt by 1667.

As with the Ashikaga, successive generation of the Tokugawa shoguns ashes and ihai mortuary tablets with enshrined at the temple.