Jo'e [ja] located the temple on Tōnomine, a peak of on the southern side of Mount Goharetsu (619 metres (2,031 ft)).

The emperors Daigo (884 – 930) and Go-Hanazono (1419 – 1471) attached special reverence to the temple, and bestowed it with various honorifics.

[1][3][6][4][7] Under shinbutsu-shūgō, a system of syncretism of Buddhism and kami worship, the site was both a Shinto shrine and a Buddhist temple.

The shrine received significant financial support from the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period (1603 – 1868).

On this day, people in ancient costumes and arranged in a circle play a form of football in which they kick a ball made of deerskin to each other.