Tag: shrine
Sacred Penises
Sacred penises at the Awashima jinja in Wakayama. This shrine attracts many female visitors who...
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Old soldiers at Yasukuni Shrine
WWII veterans marching through the gates at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. _
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Panty Bag at Awashima Shrine
Awashima jinja (Awashima shrine) in Wakayama attracts many female visitors who come to pray for...
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Hina Dolla at Awashima Jinja
Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Other posts with pictures of Awashima Jinja:...
Read MoreHina Doll at the Awashima Shrine in Wakayama
Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Many Japanese people believe that dolls have souls, so instead of throwing them in the garbage, they take them to a shrine where they are blessed and ritually burned or thrown...
Read MoreSacred New Year’s Rope
Many shrines put chinowa (braided straw ropes) at the entrance to the shrine at New Year’s and other times of purifications. Worshipers at the shrine pass through the ring as an act of purification from misdeeds,...
Read MoreThe Karma-cutting Shrine
Kama Hachiman Jinja is what is known as an engiri (karma cutting) shrine. If a person thinks that they have an undesirable karmic connection with a person, he or she sometimes go to an engiri shrine to sever their connection...
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Shrine for “mizuko,” aborted and miscarried babies.
Read MoreKyudo Scorer
The Yasukuni Shrine is famous for its nationalistic war museum, war criminals enshrined as gods, and association with extreme right-wing militant groups. The good thing about all the controversy is that when they have a...
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