素盞嗚神社は牛頭天王をお祀りする祇園信仰の天王社です。本来は疫病等を防ぐ信仰ですが、築城の頃に城下を守るために明石城の鬼門（北東）の方向に鎮座されました。今は天王町というこの地の地名にもなっています。
01.The guardian angel for unlucky direction
Susano Shrine is the tenno shrine of faith in Gion and people enshrine Gozu Tenno there. People originally believe in it to avoid some plague, but when the feudal lord of the Akashi domain built Akashi Castle he placed this shrine to the northeast of the castle for his people’s security because that was unlucky direction. The present name Tenno-cho came from it.
明石ヘリテージマップ『人丸』2018
