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The
entrance from the road
to the shrine is clean
through the rock face.
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A
50 metre tunnel connects
one into the shrine area on
the other side of the rock
wall face.
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You then walk down a
trail with pretty wooden
pileons on either side.
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A
small stone carving
along the way.
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Much
like at Meiji Shrine
in Tokyo, you can write
your wishes on these
and leave them for the
deities to perhaps grant.
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Down
towards the main
shrine itself, one must
walk across the bridge
over the water, full of
large fish.
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The
shrine lies before you.
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Another
lion statue
sits on one side
of the walkway to
the shrine.
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Another
shrine lies within.
This one 4" wooden beam
is holding up many 1000's
of tons of solid rock. Wow!
It must be a divine stick. |
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Beyond
the beam shown
above, we enter a temple
area of some size.
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Many
colorful pieces of
cloth hang down from the
ceiling of this inside the
rock face shrine. |
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Sasuke-Inari
Shrine is here. The
1st shogun Yoritomo Minamoto of
the Genji clan ordered samarai
Shigetada Hatakeyama to rebuild
this shrine in the 12th century.
He believed that the spirit here
was a harbringer of his good
fortune.
5 dieties are enshrined here.
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Outside,
we see a sign that
shows some of the many bird
species one may see in this
area. It was all in Japanese. |
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A
flower on the grounds of
one of the shrines in Kamakura.
I am always on the look out
for a flower shot. I would love
to get a few enlarged on my
wall at home. For now, I have
these
images on my wall
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Near
the Zeniarai
Benten, and
just out of sight where no one
could see, was this statue of a
small dragon. Since I was out
of view, I had the sudden
feeling that I could be grabbed
and taken by the deities and
no one would have seen.
- or quite possibly cared :)
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More
Kamakura information.
Probably is saying 'dentist'
and 'hospital'
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