Travel to Miyajima 6
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.
Tag: Japanese shrine
Travel to Miyajima 5
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…
Travel to Miyajima 3 (Itsukushima Shrine 3)
Deer is a symbol of Miyajima and you can see deer wander freely through the streets and parks.
Travel to Miyajima 2 (Itsukushima Shrine 2)
The contrast of the blue sea, green hills and the vivid vermilion-lacquered shirine is breathtakingly beautiful.
Travel to Miyajima 1 (Itsukushima Shrine)
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.
A deer fortune slip : Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara
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) !
“Omamori” ; Japanese lucky charm (amulets)
by Kanko*
When the New Year has arrived, I’d always visit a shrine for Hatumode, and consult an oracle or get a lucky charm (amulets) each year. Of course I did so this year, too.
The lucky charms usually categorized by the area of your wish such as “prosperous business”, “successful study”, “well-being of family” and “fulfillment of love or wish for finding a partner”.
by Kanko*
Nowadays, they have more fun sort of luck charms featuring the popular characters such as Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty or Snoopy and they are all cute. But I think that those traditional lucky charms with delicate fabrics are still very pretty.
Happy Hello Kitty Omamori (Strapya World!)
There are some books (in Japanese) introducing the lucky charms form shrines and temples in Kyoto.
Omamori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Omamori (about.com)
Kagami mochi ; Japanese traditional new year decoration
Kagami mochi,literally mirror rice cake, is a traditional Japanese New Year decoration. It usually consists of two round mochi (rice cakes), the smaller placed a top the larger, and a mikan (a Japanese bitter orange) with an attached leaf on top.
Further to this, it may have a sheet of konbu and a skewer of dried persimmons under the mochi.
by midorisyu
It is traditionally broken and eaten in a Shinto ritual called kagami biraki (mirror opening) on the second Saturday or Sunday of January.
