Tag: Japanese shrine
Mitarashi-matsuri, a festival that is held every summer at Shimogamo-shrine in Kyoto.
Only during the festival, people are allowed to step into the pond with deity water of the shrine. Soak feet in the beautiful and cool pond, light a candle, then have the water of the shrine.
This is a festival for people to remove their sins and impurities and to wish for their health and longevity.
Shimogamo jinja
Shimogamo - jinja shrine (Welcome to Kyoto)
Enoshima is one of the nearest resorts from Tokyo. It takes 1 hour and a half from Shibuya.
I ate “Shirasu Don (the young of sardines bowl)”, a local specialty of Enoshima.
People enjoy playing by the sea or surfing… the rest houses are under construction. summer will come soon!
Enoshima (Wikipedia)
Google Maps
Steamed rice alone tastes delicious, and even more delicious autumn rice dish includes adding seasonal ingredients such as mushrooms, chestnuts and octopus to the rice.
We had a great dinner at the hotel in Miyajima.
A plate of sashimi (slices of raw fish),
the Anago’s shiro-yaki (whitely baked, only baked with some salt),
fried vegetables and seafoods and more…
Deer is a symbol of Miyajima and you can see deer wander freely through the streets and parks.
The contrast of the blue sea, green hills and the vivid vermilion-lacquered shirine is breathtakingly beautiful.
Miyajima is one of the crown jewels of Japan, and certainly one of its finest views. Located off the coast of Hiroshima, the serene beauty of the island is an essential coda to that city.
“excerpt from Wikitravel“
Itsukushima Shrine was first built in 593, then rebuilt by Taira-no-Kiyomori in 1168. Miyajima has been worshiped as a divine island since ancient times which is why the shrine was built
on the seashore where the tide ebbs and flows.
I got a deer fortune slip at Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara.
by Eric I. E.
A deer is taken good care of in Kasuga Taisha Shrine, because there is the myth that God rode a white deer.
by necromage
The deer having afortune slip in its mouth is kawaii !
I got a great good luck (dai-kichi) !
