Located between buildings in Doshomachi, an area traditionally known for medicine, the deities enshrined here are worshiped as the gods of health and medicine. Sukunahikona-no-Mikoto, the Japanese god of medicine, and Shinno-Entei, the Chinese god of medicine, are both enshrined here, and the shrine is known as Shinno-san. The shrine was believed to have been founded in 1780, when Shinno, already enshrined at an assembly hall for pharmacists, was brought, along with the divided spirit of Sukunahikona-no-Mikoto, from a shrine in Kyoto and enshrined together. The papier-mache tiger, a popular Osaka souvenir said to protect its owner from illnesses, is this shrine's charm. Legend says that during a cholera epidemic in Osaka, people where healed when the papier-mache tiger charms were given out free of charge along with medicine. Papier-mache tigers are given out at the shrine's annual Shinno Festival, held November 22nd - 23rd. A local museum also stands on the premises.