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Tag: shrine
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This little shrine is tucked away behind a swimming pool that’s never open on the way to a country club that looks as though it was imported from Bali. I’d never visited it before but found myself up there as the sun was fading today. A couple of these were run through Hipstamatic, using the…
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It was the light that called me over, but it was the tiny little blue Kanegon at the base of the fox which made this my picture of the day.
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The pandemic stay at home period was the big reason I haven’t hit the trails in forever. Today, nearly at the top of a mountain looking for a trail that never appeared, I stumbled across this poor collapsed shrine & I wonder if it was knocked out in the big typhoon last year that closed…
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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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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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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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These chaps guard the entrance to shrines. One has an open mouth, the other a closed. The open mouth represents ‘a’ – the beginning of the Sanskrit alphabet (syllabary?) the closed mouth represents ‘un’ – the end of the same. This symbolizes the beginning and the end of all things. If you put them together,…
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A couple of 巫女 (shrine maidens) heading back into the office to finish up for the day at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in Kamakura.
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