Tsukudo Jinja is a small shrine of fairly limited significance, but it does have a connection to the great Kanda Myôjin. Enshrined at Kanda Myôjin is the angry spirit of Taira no Masakado, a warrior from the esteemed Taira family who was betrayed by the Imperial Court and members of his own family. His head was removed and paraded around Kyoto before it started to move again and fly off to a village in Kanto where modern day Tokyo is. The head was first held in a lesser shrine before a spreading plague prompted its move to Kanda Myôjin. Tsukudo Jinja is the original "lesser" shrine where the head of Masakado was first enshrined for a thousand years. Inside Tsukudo Jinja is (was) the supposed box that held the head but was lost in the fire bombings of WW2.

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The history of Tsukudo Jinja isn't really what makes this shrine a place to see, rather it's the location of this shrine. Tsukudo Jinja is in a fight against the progressive growth of the surrounding city. Sandwiched between two office buildings, the shrine is not visible from the street except for the red tori and Chinese lions which guard the gate.