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A torii gate built in 1639 by Kuroda Tadayuki, the second domain lord, constructed from granite quarried from Mount Kaya in Itoshima City. It is a distinguished structure with ties to the torii gates of Nikko Toshogu and Ueno Toshogu Shrines. Traces of repairs from damage sustained during the 2005 Fukuoka Western Offshore Earthquake remain visible.
This torii gate was constructed in 1640 by Kuroda Tadayuki, the second daimyo of the Fukuoka Domain, using granite stone quarried from Mount Kaya in Itoshima City.
The granite from Mount Kaya was also donated by Kuroda Nagamasa, the first daimyo, as a large torii gate (designated as an Important Cultural Property) before the front gate of the Toshogu Shrine in Nikko. Kuroda Tadayuki, at the request of the Edo shogunate, donated a torii gate made from the same Mount Kaya granite to the Kouyouzan Toshogu Shrine within Edo Castle (now the Imperial Palace's Kouyouzan Sericulture Laboratory). This gate was relocated to the Toshogu Shrine in Ueno by the Meiji government in 1873, and remains visible today as the Shinobazu-guchi torii gate along the Ikenohata approach.
The torii gate at this shrine stands as a sibling gate alongside those at Nikko Toshogu Shrine, Kekko Shrine, and Ueno Toshogu Shrine. It sustained partial damage during the 2005 Western Fukuoka Offshore Earthquake, and traces of its repair work remain visible.
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