Thursday, February 26, 2015

Kumano Shrine, Honjo



Honjo is a large village on the north shore of the Nakaumi and the main village shrine was a branch of Kumano Shrine. I think this was the first shrine I had come to in the last 2 days of walking that was not either in the Izumo Fudoki nor the Engi Shiki.


The three main kami are Izanami, Hayatamano, and Kotosakano, though usually it is Izanagi associated with the other two rather than Izanami. The shrine had a small but in good condition mikoshi, fairly simple.


In the grounds was a Tenjin shrine, an Inari shrine, and an small shrine with no name.


The Inari shrine had a lot of small kitsune figures, usually white ceramic or plain stone, but also this pair of golden ones. There was also a small pair of figures, Daikoku and Ebisu.



3 comments:

  1. Thank you for the interesting information. The pictures are very beautiful
    (I go to Wkipedia for more information)

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  2. surely there must be more to Japan than shrines

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    1. the previous three posts were not about shrines, and the next post is not a shrine :)

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