A shrine said to have originated when villagers built a bamboo-thatched hall after the oni extermination, enshrining Emperor Kōrei and his family.
Read as 'Sasafuku-jinja.' According to tradition, after the oni extermination on Mt. Kizumi, the local people built a small hall thatched with bamboo leaves, and this became the origin of the shrine. The enshrined deities are Emperor Kōrei — said to have defeated the oni — and members of his family. Together with the East and West Sasafuku Shrines at Miyauchi in Nichinan, it is counted among the 'Three Sasafuku Shrines of Hino District' and has also been known as Hino Taisha.
There is also a theory that the name 'Sasafuku' derives from 'fuigo' (bellows) associated with iron-sand tatara smelting. The Hino River basin is a rich source of iron sand, and the land that produced the legendary sword Dōjigiri Yasutsuna. Oni legend, masterwork swords, and the fires of tatara ironworking are all connected by a single thread — iron sand — and this shrine stands at that very knot.
As one of the sites associated with the Mt. Kizumi legend, it can be visited together with Mt. Kizumi and Sasato-yama.