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A shinto priest at Furogu Shrine in Okawa City, Fukuoka, Japan. This is one of the three main shrines of the Chikugo Region of southern Fukuoka Prefecture.
福岡県大川市の風浪宮の神主です。筑後川の３大神社の一つです。お守りを買った後、この写真はお神主のポーズです。
Shinto priest and priestess at the Kamigamo Jinja, Kyoto.
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Meiji Shrine (明治神宮, Meiji Jingū?), located near Harajuku Station in Tokyo, Japan, is the Shinto shrine dedicated to the souls of Emperor Meiji and his wife. It also includes the Meiji Memorial Hall, which was originally used for governmental meetings, including discussions surrounding the drafting of the Meiji Constitution in the late 19th century. Today it is used for Shinto weddings.
Photo taken in Tokyo - April 1996 - Minolta X-700 SLR camera at the Meji-Jingu Shrine. Post processing done January 2008.
Een Shinto bruiloft is een heel traditionele manier om te trouwen: met een processie en priesters. De invloed van het shinto op het dagelijks leven kan men terugvinden in verschillende gebeurtenissen die nog steeds plaatsvinden ondanks het feit dat veel Japanners het shinto tegenwoordig vaak een beetje lacherig afdoen. Zowel bij de geboorte, in de jeugd, bij het trouwen en later heeft bijna iedere Japanner te maken met speciale, typische shinto gebeurtenissen. shinto is typisch een religie bedoeld voor het leven.
Looking toward the Shinto Shrine at Itsukushima (厳島神社) on Miyajima Island (宮島). The shrine is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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I don't know where this image came from, but it's been on my desktop for a few months, and I've come to love it dearly.
Nara was founded in 710 CE as Japan's first permanent capital, and even after Heian-kyō (Kyoto) became the seat of the Emperor, and hence political capital, in 794, the temples and shrines of Nara, or Nanto Shichi Daiji, remained spiritually important – Nanto (南都) even means 'the southern capital'.
Oddly, Nara has only been a city since 1898, 29 years after the capital moved again, to Edo (Tokyo), but the eight major temples, shrines and ruins (plus Kasugayama Primeval Forest) of the 'Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara' UNESCO World Heritage Site make Nara a significant destination of pilgrimage – not least by tourists.
The most famous Shinto shrine in Nara is Kasuga-taisha, established by the Fujiwara family in 768, when the grand shrine's first kami is said to have ridden a white deer to the summit of Mikasa-yama.
This partly explains the large number of sika deer wandering Nara Park, 'sacred messengers' encouraged by tourists feeding them rice crackers – itself not entirely recommended, as they're wild animals and can be aggressive.
Another distinctive characteristic of Kasuga-taisha is the path (sandō) through the woods to the shrine, which is lined by over three thousand stone lanterns (ishidōrō/tachidōrō) like these.
Attractively weathered into their surroundings and colonised by ferns and moss, they are all lit for the Setsubun Mantoro and Chugen Mantoro festivals in February and August, marking the turn of winter to spring and the turn of summer to autumn.
The lanterns are hollow, of course – the white rectangles and – I think – the circles are paper glued over apertures in the stone, featuring people's ema wishes.
More specifically, this group of lanterns stands beside the main path into the Kasuga-taisha complex, at the Second Torii.
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At the Meiji shrine - the photo opportunity you don't want to miss. The white hood of the bride is called watabōshi, while she is wearing a uchikake - the woman next to her is wearing a kurotomesode, a formal sort of kimono usually worn at weddings when you are the mother of the bride or groom. The man is wearing a kimono with hakama and a haori (jacket) and a haori-himo (the white tassel in the front of the jacket)
But when I went to the impressive Meiji shrine, it was not one wedding but two - and Kinrō Kansha no Hi (Labour thanksgiving day) and a lot of children dressed for the occasion of Shichi-Go-San (including being gifted the traditional candy - but the date is off because that's supposed to be on the 15th, so it might have been something else....).
Participants in the 2014 Kazusa Junisha Matsuri (Festival) carrying a mikoshi (portable Shinto shrine) on the beach of Torami in the Bousou Peninsula of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
Ema wiki:
Ema are small wooden plaques on which Shinto worshippers write their prayers or wishes. The ema are then left hanging up at the shrine, where the kami (spirits or gods) receive them. They bear various pictures, often of animals or other Shinto imagery, and many have the word gan'i , meaning "wish", written along the side. In ancient times people would donate horses to the shrines for good favor, over time this was transferred to a wooden plaque with a picture of a horse, and later still to the various wooden plaques sold today for the same purpose.
Ema are sold for various wishes. Common reasons for buying a plaque are for success in work or on exams, marital bliss, to have children, and health. Some shrines specialize in certain types of these plaques, and the larger shrines may offer more than one. Sales of ema help support the shrine financially.