Yamatsumi Shrine is located in the village of Iitate, and enshrines the mountain deity Oyamatsumi. The main hall of the shrine is located halfway up a mountain called Toratori (“tiger capture”). The mountain is named after a legend in which a white wolf helped the samurai warrior Minamoto no Yoriyoshi (988–1075) capture a villainous bandit who had been terrorizing the local people. At the foot of the shrine is a statue of a white wolf, not that of the usual guardian dog. In the hall of worship, the ceiling is decorated with 242 paintings of scenes of wolves. Unfortunately, the shrine burned to the ground in April, 2013, destroying the more than 100-year-old paintings of wolves. The shrine was rebuilt in 2015, and the wolf ceiling paintings were restored in a 10-month-long project by graduate students of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. They were painstakingly restored using photographs taken of the old paintings, and once again are acting in their traditional role to ward off thieves.