Kenkun ShrineKenkun Shrine

Kenkun Shrine more properly known as Takeisao Shrine, is a Shinto shrine in the Kita-Funaoka-cho, Murasakino neighborhood of Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It is located on the middle slope of Mount Funaoka. The main kami worshipped at this shrine is the deified spirit of the Sengoku period warlord Oda Nobunaga, with his son Oda Nobutada is enshrined as a secondary deity. It is one of many shrines that enshrined the ancestors of feudal domains, which were popular from the late Edo period to the early Meiji period in Japanese history. Mount Funaoka, on which the shrine is located, was a National Historic Site in 1968.