There is a hall enshrining the Ike Okami Deity on the right side of the Worship Hall at Shichimenzan (Mount Shichimen) Keishin-in Temple. It is said that the Ike Okami Deity had been worshipped as the guardian deity of Mount Shichimen before the temple enshrined the Shichimen-Daimyojin Deity, and people in the Amahata area prayed for the coming of the deity. The statue of the Ike Okami Deity is an old man, and is also called En-no-gyoja, the founder of mountain asceticism incorporating Shinto and Buddhism (shugendo). The current hall building was repaired in 1950.

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