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This Japanese shrine is Ueno Tōshō-gū, and the golden gate Karamon (唐門) in front of it. Well, a more proper way to call the gate is the Kara gate - mon means gate in itself. And a karamon is, to quote jisho.org: a large gate with a karahafu gable (typically at a temple, shrine or castle). And a karahafu gable is that curved thing over the entrance.
The shrine is dedicated to the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, Ieyasu, founded in 1627, with the main hall (hinted here behind the gate) built in 1651 by the third Tokugawa shogun (and Ieyasu's grandson). It has survived the Battle of Ueno (1868), the Kanto earthquake (1923), and the bombings of the Second World War, and is now an Important Cultural Property of Japan, and is a great example of Edo architecture. The main building is covered with gold foil, and saw massive restoration work 2009-2013. This building is called the Golden Hall (金色殿).
The wall and gate was also built in 1651. The crest at the centre of the gate beam (and on the shrine gable itself), is that of the Tokugawa clan.
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The Maruyamazuishininari shrine (円山隨身稲荷大明神) on the kofun in Shiba Park, behind the Shiba Toshogu shrine (芝東照宮).
This is a small shrine guarded by foxes and dedicated to the god Inari, a kami (also known as Inari Ōkami or Oinari, 稲荷大神), who is a god of rice and sake, fertility and foxes, and a bunch of other stuff - and general worldly success. Inari shrines are extremely popular in Japan, and you can find them everywhere (many of them quite small, and many of them much, much smaller than even this one).
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At the Kanda shinto shrine - Kanda-myōjin (神田明神). This shrine dates its roots back to 730 AD, but it has relocated a couple of times and ended up here in 1603, moved to this place by the shogun (to make place for the expanding Edo castle, though officially to guard against misfortune because of an unhappy kami). Before this, in 1309, the warrior and rebel Taira no Masakado was enshrined in the Kanda shrine as a kami. The other two deities enshrined here are Onamuchi-no-mikoto (Daikoku-sama) and Sukunahikona-no-mokoto (Ebisu-sama). The shrine was added to the Tokyo ten shrines (東京十社 - Tokyo Jissha) during the Meiji era, but the emperor hesitated to do so since Masakado had led a rebellion against the central government in Kyoto in his day. This was resolved with the kami being removed from the shrine. However he proved to be so popular that he was reinstated after the second world war.
The shrine itself, as it stands today, was built in 1934 in the Gongen style after the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 - but using concrete instead of traditional wood, which meant that it actually survived the fire bombings of the Second World War (when not much else in this area did). The shrine was very important for the warriors, and today its proximity to Akihabara has given it a bit of a special niche, selling talismans and blessings for electronic equipment (and all the usual talismans too, for good health, good luck, luck in business, etc).
One of the many shrines or small temples tucked awys in the alleys of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Autumn leaves strewn across the path leading to the tori gate of the shrine, Kameoka, Japan. Medium format film scan.
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I wish all of you Happy New Year 2025!
Many Japanese people visit shrines at the beginning of the year, wishing happiness in the new year.
In Motonosumi Shrine, red toriis are continued to reach the shrine, which is located at the top of a hill and is not shown in the photo. A torii is a gate to a shrine.
Kurumayama Ski Resort
車山高原スキー場
This is Kurumayama Shrine of the top of Mt.Kurumayama.
The background is Mt.Fuji
and Yatsugatake mountains at the left.
山頂の車山神社です。
向こうに富士山、左手は八ヶ岳になります。
雪はまだまだ少なかったです。
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The Kanda shinto shrine in Tokyo on a winter afternoon.
In Japanese the shrine is known as Kanda-myōjin (神田明神).
The shrine has roots back to the Heian period and has been at this location since 1603, but the shrine you can see today, built in the Gongen style, was built in 1934 after the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 - but using concrete instead of traditional wood, which meant that it actually survived the fire bombings of the Second World War (when not much else in this area did). The shrine was very important for the warriors, and today its proximity to Akihabara has given it a bit of a special niche, selling talismans and blessings for electronic equipment (and all the usual talismans too, for good health, good luck, luck in business, etc).
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Exchange of Holy hanging paper for the new year
At Shrine of the god of water along Iruma River in Hanno near Tokyo
Ueno Toushouguu (上野東照宮) miraculously survived the Kantou Earthquake in 1923 and the air raids of Tokyo in 1945. Due to that history, it is worshipped by people who need a good luck.
Present structure was constructed in 1651 by Tokugawa Iemitsu (徳川家光), the third Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Toushouguu is a Shintou shrine dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康), the first Shougun and the grandfather of I'emitsu.
There are several Toushouguus in Japan, the most famous of which is the one in Nikko(u) (日光). This one is not that large, but the gold-leafed exterior is worth a look.
Two photos were merged to get this image as the site was not very large.
The site used to be part of the Kan'eiji (寛永寺) Buddhist temple. Ueno Onshi Park including the Shinobazunoike pond, the Western Art Museum and other museums, and the Ueno Zoo also used to be the compound of Kan'eiji.