Kumata Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Hirano-miyamachi, Hirano Ward, Osaka City. It is said to have begun in 862, when Tōdō, the son of Sakanoue no Hironomaro, enshrined Susanoo-no-Mikoto as his clan deity—this is now the First Sanctuary. The Third Sanctuary was established in 1190 when Kumano worship spread and Izanagi-no-Mikoto was invited and enshrined, and in 1321 the Second Sanctuary was founded by inviting the Kumano Sanzho Gongen (Izanami-no-Mikoto, Hayatama-no-Mikoto, and Kotosaka-no-O-no-Mikoto). All three main sanctuaries are designated Important Cultural Properties of Japan. The grounds also preserve Japan’s only remaining renga (linked-verse) hall, designated a cultural property by the city. Other highlights include a camphor tree said to be over 850 years old and designated a natural monument of Osaka Prefecture, and the “Tarachine no Ichō,” a giant ginkgo said to be about 500 years old; it is believed that making a wish there helps increase breast milk and heal breast ailments. Every year on April 13, the shrine holds the “Otaue Shinji” rice-planting ritual, designated a National Intangible Folk Cultural Property, in which “seeds of good fortune” bestowed by the gods are scattered in the worship hall, which is treated as a symbolic rice field.