Imamiya Jinja was founded in 994 to protect Kyoto from pestilence. Most of its current buildings are rebuilds dating to the Meiji period (1868-1912). This set of film photographs was taken there around New Year’s some years ago - a flea market was held on the premises at the time.
"Stay curious!" Today I experimented with this prototype of a portable pocket shrine or lucky charm. The piece can be hung open on the wall or carried as a small bag, or even worn around the neck with a ribbon. Inspired by 19th century #Breverl, by art books, amulets, old meditation pictures, and cabinets of curiosities. Could there be people who buy such things? 🤔
This was with no doubt the most beautiful Shrine ⛩️ so far. Not only because it keeps the original unpainted wood and the gold ornaments, but also for the placement. It sits at the bottom of Takayama’s mountains and it makes a very impressive view contrasting the high trees.
This was #drawing for @father from DeviantArt. They wrote stories there and asked me for #illustration for one of them.
In that #story there was a young sensitive boy, lonely and bullied by peers, because he was shy and had some feminine hobbies like collecting "sweet things". He also liked to walk through old forest with many abandoned ruins.
One day, when he walked picking flowers, he found #shrine ruin and went inside it. He saw beautiful stone woman statue, maybe some saint, holding metal plate with fire. The boy put flowers in fire as an offering and started praying to this saint. He wanted to become brave, to impress a girl he liked but was too shy to talk to. When he was praying, snakes started appearing in the shadows.
Maybe she was not a saint...
No trip to Sapporo is complete (at least for my wife and me) without a visit to Hokkaido Jingū, the Shinto shrine beautifully located in Maruyama Park. Here is a set of photos taken today. iPhone 15 Pro shots straight out of camera.
Some unedited, out-of-camera photos from today’s day trip to Katori Jingū, a popular Shinto shrine outside of Sawara, northeast of Narita (Chiba Prefecture). The shrine has a stone lantern lined approach that begins after some shops and restaurants found around the shrine's parking lot. Katori Jingū's oldest standing structures are its black painted main building and vermilion gate, which date from the year 1700.
Right in the middle of Naha is Naminoue Beach, and on a small cliff above the beach are Naminoue-gu Shrine and Gokoku-ji Temple. We walked by the beach and shrine after getting to Naha from Yomitan but didn’t actually visit them until a couple of days later when we took a trip to the shrine in the early afternoon, had lunch, and then went back to go to the beach
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