Seimei Shrine

Seimei Shrine is a shrine built on the remains of Seimei's mansion. In the 2nd year of Kanhiro (1005), Abe Seimei died, and two years later, Emperor Yoichi ordered his mansion to be rebuilt. The shrine was very large in the beginning, but due to the war and the renovation of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it shrunk and was even almost deserted. The descendants of Go-Seimei restored the shrine, and the main building was restored in 1925. The shrine has a New Year's festival on New Year's Day, and the regular festival is on the autumnal equinox every year. In recent years, with the popularity of Abe Seimei brought by the novel "Onmyoji" by the dream pillow tapir and the anime "Youth Onmyoji", Seimei Shrine has welcomed visitors from all over the world. One thousand years after Seimei's death (2005), the Abe Seimei Millennium Festival was held at the shrine.