魚の棚商店街の奥に、ひっそりと弁財天を祀る小社があります。日本三大弁財天の一つ厳島神社から勧請されました。手前には井戸があるため元は水の守り神だったと思われますが、今では商いの守り神として信仰されています。
38.Benzaiten, the goddess of water and music, in the Uo-no-tana Street Market
At the end of an alley in the Uo-no-tana Street Market, there is a very small modest shrine, where the goddess of water and souls from Itsukushima Shrine which has one of the three most valuable Benzaitens on Japan. As there is a well on front of the shrine it seemed to be originally a shrine for water, however now they believe in it as business goddess.
明石へリテージマップ『城下』2017
