photos prose & poetry
Category: Japanese Culture
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This is a local mikoshi or portable shrine. It lives in a big shed down the road, and around festival time they open the shed for viewing. I’m pretty sure I saw posters up saying that this year’s festival is cancelled. This is a shame because that means that the local gods don’t get to…
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Very windy today and it looks like part of someone’s tanabata decorations got carried off.
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Ema (絵馬) are votive tablets upon which you write wishes you’d like granted. Then you hang them up at a shrine and cross your fingers that the kami (god) who lives there gets around to checking your dreams off his or her to-do list. The best thing about them is that their evolution – the…
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With thanks to Dimitri From Paris for my title.
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A couple of deer statue at the entrance to Kasuga Shrine in Totsuka, providing you some water to cleanse your mitts before you pray.
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Ebisu is one of the Seven traditional gods of luck, and the patron saint of tradesmen & fishermen. The first of those might explain why the farm shop down the road have recently acquired this cool little statue of him.
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HAHA! APRIL FOOL! It’s Toyotomi Hideyoshi! HAHA! You fools! Got you! Imagine thinking this was Akechi Mitsuhide!