Kenkun Shrine
| Kenkun Shrine | |
|---|---|
Haiden of Kenkun Shrine | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Shinto |
| Deity | Oda Nobunaga |
| Location | |
| Location | Murasakino Kitafunaoka-machi 49, Kita-ku, Kyōto-shi, Kyōto-fu |
| Geographic coordinates | 35°2′19″N 135°44′35″E / 35.03861°N 135.74306°E |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Emperor Meiji |
| Date established | 1869 |
| Glossary of Shinto | |
Kenkun Shrine (建勲神社,, Kenkun-jinja) more properly known as Takeisao Shrine, is a Shinto shrine in the Kita-Funaoka-cho, Murasakino neighborhood of Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It is located on the middle slope of Mount Funaoka. The main kami worshipped at this shrine is the deified spirit of the Sengoku period warlord Oda Nobunaga, with his son Oda Nobutada is enshrined as a secondary deity. t is one of many shrines that enshrined the ancestors of feudal domains, which were popular from the late Edo period to the early Meiji period in Japanese history. Mount Funaoka, on which the shrine is located, was a National Historic Site in 1968.