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There are many smaller auxiliary shrines in the woods around Kasuga-taisha, twelve of which are located along a path past the main shrine complex and are dedicated to the twelve lucky gods. Among them is Wakamiya Shrine known for its dance festival. Wakamiya-jinja shrine is a so called "Important Cultural Property". "The deity of Wakamiya has been enshrined here since 1135. Only once a year during the annual festival Kasuga Wakamiya-onmatsuri parade (having the status of National Folk Cultural Asset) the deity goes across to Otabisho. The back end of the roof shingled with the bark of Hinoki (Japanese cypress) is combined with roof of Kagura-den."
Kagura-den: building within a Shinto shrine where the sacred dance (kagura) and music are offered during ceremonies.
Otabisho: a facility that serves as the temporary destination or midway resting point of a kami (more accurately the mikoshi) in the middle of its ritual procession.
Kami: the spirits or phenomena that are worshiped in the religion of Shinto. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, as well as beings and the qualities that these beings express, and include the spirits of venerated dead persons.
Nara, Japan, 2012
Sake plays an integral role in Japan's Shinto religion.
The history of Sake in Japan extends back before recorded history. It's composed of rice, water, rice mold, and yeast.
The Shinto religion (generally, though there are variations) believes that all things, from the soil, rocks, trees, plants, animals, wind, etc... are infused with the spirits (both current and past).
Sipping a cup of Sake is a prayerful act of symbolic unification with the gods.
Sake brewers often offer up their best sake to local shrines as a way of both giving thanks and praying for a good product that year.
HDR picture of numerous Sake barrels at Meiji Shrine when I was there last month.
Tokyo, Japan.
This photo was taken at the Kasuga-taisha is a Shinto shrine in Nara, Japan. There are many shrines within the Kasugar-taisha shrine complex.
It is the shrine of the Fujiwara family, established in 768 CE and rebuilt several times over the centuries. The interior is famous for its many bronze lanterns, as well as the many stone lanterns that lead up the shrine. The architectural style Kasuga-zukuri takes its name from Kasuga Shrine's honden. The Torii at Kasuga-taisha is one of the oldest in Shinto and helped influence the style of Torii seen across much of Japan. Wikipedia
Approximately 10,000 tori (an archway to a Shinto shrine) dedicated by devotees stand on Mt. Inari, among which the Senbon torii (a thousand torii) are particularly famous.
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Seen a strage ritual at Yasaka shrine,when olderly people,dressed as Shinto priests, chanted songs, whilst younger priestesses performed a very slow dance.
【Nikko, Japan】 The visitors' center of the Toshogu Shinto shrine of Nikko, camouflaging itself in the middle of the nature.
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#tbt First trip to Tokyo in March 2002. Taking in some incense from one of the smaller shrines in the Asakusa temple area. On my way back to Tokyo today.
Traditional Japanese weddings are Shinto-style held in shrines. Often, brides wear a traditional wedding kimono called shiromuku or white kimono robe (the bribe on this photo is also wearing uchikake on top of the kimono, a garment often decorated with birds or flowers). Grooms wear montsuki (black formal kimono), haori (kimono jacket), and hakama (kimono pants).
A number of times I have been invited to attend such weddings. I (politely) declined the same number of times.
Why?
When you're attending a Japanese wedding, you are expected to bring cash as a gift, the amount of which depends in your relationship with the couple. In some cases, the amount is indicated on the invitation card. 30,000-yen is not unusual.
I can spend that amount on a fine glass instead ;)
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Meiji-Jingu Shrine, Tokyo
One of two wedding chapels in the annex of the New Grand Hotel. It has become customary for Japanese to have both Western and traditional Shinto wedding ceremonies. I think this is largely due to the fact that Japanese women want to wear a Western dress and uchikake (not together, but, you know what I mean). Down the hall from this chapel is the Christian chapel.
New Grand Hotel Annex. Kanazawa, Ishikawa.
I don't think I'll remember the name of the discipline too readily.
I took some images of a friend showing me how this martial art is trained for. Lake Samsonsvale - Bullocky Rest.
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@Uji-gami-jinja, Kyoto
Do you know that you can hold a wedding at this historic shrine (designated UNESCO World Heritage)?
Shinto priest offering prayers for harvest festival.
This photo is from an album Elstner Hilton compiled in Japan between 1914 and 1918. Elstner was my spouse's uncle.
While Uncle Elstner was pretty good about annotating the photos that required an explanation of some sort, he did not date the pictures. So all we know is they were taken between January, 1914 and December, 1918.
【Nikko, Japan】 Toshogu Shinto shrines in the forests of Nikko under the rain.
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Entrance to Futarasan Shrine, Nikko
This is one of many shinto gates that lie scattered around the Nikko World Heritage Site. These gates, called torii, mark the boundary between the profane and the sacred. They are common all over Japan, and their presence typically means a shrine, even a very small one, is near.
This torii was huge, stone (possibly concrete), and nestled in Nikko's ancient cedar forests. The morning was cold and hazy, but despite this, tourists were already flocking (including us!). Still, when heads mar the shot, shoot the sunbeams.