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Evening lanterns illuminate a group of ema votive tablets. Izumojisaino Shinto shrine, Sainokamicho, Kyoto Japan. Film scan.
Tsuyunoten Shrine, Kita-ku, Osaka. November 10, 2017.
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Ema are small wooden plaques in which visitors to the shrine write their wishes and hopes for the future. "Postcards to the gods" is how they are sometimes described.
Kawagoe Hikiwa Shrine.
Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
A ema, também chamada nandu, nhandu, guaripé e xuri, é uma ave da família Rheidae cujo habitat se restringe à América do Sul. Apesar de possuir grandes asas, não voa.
Fat cats adorn wooden wishing plaques at a shinto shrine in Tokyo. The plaques are known as Ema 絵馬, translated as 'picture horse', and are intended to bring luck to the person who hangs them. These plaques funnel a long tradition that started during the 8th century Nara period where people donated horses, seen as the “vehicles of gods”, to the shrines to assist with their prayer. Over the subsequent years due to the financial cost of horses, the tradition shifted first to pictures of horses on wood, and eventually to pictures of other animals. Tokyo, Japan.
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Curiously, this was a bird I took for granted. I thought that all I needed to do was go to Australia, leave the cities, and it would appear, running along the road.
I couldn't have been more wrong. And we covered many kilometers of road.
This photo was taken on the afternoon of the very last day when we saw this individual for the briefest of moments.
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Rising sun coming through a rack of ema (wooden votive tablets) at Setagaya Hachiman shrine.
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Meiji Jingu, Tokyo, Japan.
July 2014.
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Ema (絵馬) are wooden plaques, often adorned with vibrant designs, where people inscribe their wishes for the future and then hang them at shrines and temples, following a common Japanese tradition. Initially, these plaques featured images of horses, as they were substitutes for actual horse offerings. Nowadays, they can display various illustrations.
The term ‘Ema’ is derived from two Kanji characters meaning ‘picture’ and ‘horse’. Traditionally, the most authentic Ema depicted a horse, reflecting their origin. During the late Nara period, people would offer horses to shrines, believing them to be divine messengers that could convey their wishes to the gods. However, as donating horses became too costly, the practice evolved into offering wooden plaques with horse images.
Today, while horse-themed Ema remain popular, there are many other types. For instance, at Shinto Inari shrines, you might find Ema featuring foxes, and there are even Ema with anime themes.
Kanda Shrine (神田明神, Kanda-myōjin, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Torii ema (small prayer cards in the shape of torii gates) for sale at Fushimi Inari Shinto shrine, Kyoto, Japan. I liked that all the red was interspersed with a few white ema that help to add dimension and made the red more intense.
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Photographed while exploring with Alice-san, Kageyama-san, Lonny, Mamoru-san, and Yoshikatsu-san. Kagurazka, Shinjuku, Tokyo. November 4, 2019.
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Ema Plaques: The central feature is a wooden rack filled with ema, which are small wooden plaques used for writing prayers or wishes to the deities. To the left is a temizuya (purification fountain) with a dragon-shaped water spout for washing hands and mouth before praying.
Nigatsu-do Hall sub-complex within the Tōdai-ji Temple grounds in Nara.
Tennoji-ku, Osaka. May 30, 2017.
I actually shot this while doing a dry run of my next Osaka Flickr photowalk route. Please contact me by Flickr mail if you'd like to join me and some of my friends on Sunday, November 19 in Osaka (Tennoji slopes, Abeno, Shinsekai) or Thursday, November 23 in Tokyo (along the Chou-Sen from Nakano to Asagaya on the National Labour Day holiday).