City: Ena, Japan
Tourist attraction: Takenami Shrine
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https://www.alojapan.com/1227850/at-japans-hottest-festival-crowds-threaten-to-smother-the-flames/ At Japan’s hottest festival, crowds threaten to smother the flames #buddhism #festivals #kurama #KuramaFireFestival #Kyoto #KyotoTopics #Shinto #shrines #temples #tourism #京都 #京都府 Kurama, Kyoto Pref. – Embers spark into the night like thousands of fireflies. The aroma of burning pine wafts through the cold air as men clad in not much more than a rope around their loins and shoulder pads carry 80-kilogram burning taimatsu pine wood torches thr…
Sugawara no Michizane, who died OTD in 903, is regarded as an excellent poet and is today revered in #Shinto as the god of learning, Tenman-Tenjin https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/shinto-buddhism/?s=mb #travel #Japan
Unseen Japan: Japanese Shrine Bans Tourists, Laments “Destruction of Japanese Culture”. ” [Watadzumi Shrine] announced it would bar any visitors from entering. It would also turn away buses of both domestic and foreign tourists. The only people allowed to visit the shrine will be local parishioners or Shinto worshipers who come to worship. It further forbids taking photographs and […]
I've been taking care of our older son, who is in his mid-30s. You might think it would be the opposite with his old man, but this is Japan, and unconditional love can appear one-sided. He is an IT manager in Tōkyō and can work mostly from home, or from our home. Since he has been living in such an urban environment, I took him on a nice nature course in northern Kyōto City from Kitaōji along the Kamo River quite a distance north, to the great shrine Kamigamo Jinja, and then to the Kyōto Botanical Garden (京都北部の北大路駅↬鴨川沿い↬上賀茂神社↬京都府立植物園). In all we went over 12,000 steps, and our son also conked out when we got back.
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https://www.alojapan.com/1224186/visit-these-four-japan-locations-that-rank-among-the-worlds-greatest-places/ Visit These Four Japan Locations That Rank Among the World’s Greatest Places #buddhism #JapanTours #Kyoto #Sado #Shinto #ShintoShrines #tours #uji Looking for some special places to go on your trip to Japan? The country’s set to welcome 40 million visitors this year, who will flock to various historical and world heritage sites across the nation. This week, TIME magazine unveiled its list of the top 100 greatest places to see around the…
Kitano Tenman-gū (北野天満宮) in northern Kyōto City is a major Shintō shrine combining national treasure architecture and plum blossom viewing at its best in these photos. Please enjoy the humor of the last one.
1) the torii gate to enter the sacred space. 2) Pink plum blossoms. 3) Mini-shrine to a kami god. 4) Caught in the act ... of sniffing plum blossom fragrance. Some Japanese people do it, too, really!
#Japan’s PM Ishiba condemns France’s #Ubisoft new Assassin’s Creed video game over cultural disrespect of #Shinto shrine
“Early previews of the game, set during the Sengoku, or Warring State period of 15th and 16th century Japan, have drawn criticism over allegations of historical inaccuracy and cultural insensitivity.” #gaming
Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. #DailyInari #Shinto #ToriiTuesday #kitsune #Japan
Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. #DailyInari #Shinto #torii #Japan
'Shinto Priestess (Miko) Dancing at a Shrine' - Suzuki Harunobu, 1766 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #Shinto
Today's "I'm laid off and bored" project.
Figured a torii gate for my desk would be really nice. So why spend $10 and buy one when I could 1) Pinch the skin between my thumb and finger between a hammer and chisel. 2) Make a mess everywhere. 3) Aggravate my lower back pain by bending over chiseling. 4) Realize how much of a pain in the ass cutting a mortice in a round dowel is.
Thankfully wood filler exists. 
Photo 1: Red and white plum blossoms in the huge Imperial Palace park in north-central Kyōto City.
2. A gate to the inner precincts of the Kyōto Imperial Palace where the Emperors used to live for around a thousand years.
3. One of the Shintō shrines in the palace grounds, with bamboo, camellias, and white plum blossoms. The Imperial family is an integral part of the indigenous Shintō religion, with the Emperor a kind of deity identified with the nation and its lifestyle rhythms traditionally, such as through rituals for a bountiful rice harvest.
4. Close-up of pink plum blossoms. In the transition from winter to spring, the weather is often rainy, cloudy, or hazy, and the darker varieties of plum blossoms do not stay fresh for long after flowering, so it is difficult to get a clear photo like this, especially with a mobile phone. I do edit the frame to get closer and larger.
Photo 1: kawazu-zakura (河津桜), an early blossoming variety of cherry blossoms, which I found at a little-known site in Yodo (淀) in southeastern Kyōto Prefecture.
2: the largest gorintō (五輪塔) in Japan, representing five elements of the universe.
3-4: Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū (石清水八幡宮) is a major Shintō shrine in southeastern Kyōto Prefecture. It has exquisite architecture, many stone lanterns, and covers a large forested hill, a pristine environment for hiking.
