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Entrance of Holy Canon, sorry, I can't show you the pic of 1200 years old Canon because I wasn't allow to do so.. Please come yourself! Leave a Comment
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Not far from the stone Canon Statue, they lays another oldest Canon Statue built at 780BC (1200 years or more) is a must visit spot. Leave a Comment
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Utsunomiya; a city of light, a city of holy. With its most famous Canon statue 75m, believes is the biggest in the region, ais worth to have a look. Leave a Comment
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Myself as tall 2m, stand infront of the Canon. From the pic, you can imagine how big the stone Canon Statue is. Leave a Comment
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5-story Pagoda atTOSHOGU SHRINE: Originally dated 1650 but reconstructed in 1818.
No. of structures constituting Toshogu Shrine: 24.
It is interesting to note that the 37 km (230 mi) route extending from Nikko City to the shrine is called Nikko Suginamiki because it is lined with 15,000 Japanese cypress trees that was planted in the 17th century. This route has also been designated a Natural Monument.
Many parts of the shrine buildings are designated as National Treasures!
National Treasures includes:
Honden (main hall), Ishi-no-ma (corridor), Haiden (worship hall), Shomen Karamon (front gate), Haimen Karamon (back gate), Sukibei (fences with openwork), Yomeimon (main gate), and Kairo (surrounding corridors). Leave a Comment
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Matsuri: Meaning both festival & worship. The Japanese worships kami (deities) due to their religion Shinto. The Shinto concept is that kami presides over all things, be they living, dead or inanimate.
Matsuri are a link between the human & the divine, usually marking the stages in planting & harvesting of rice. To preserve the goodwill of the deities, matsuri are celebrated with some form of purification (either by water or fire) & offerings. A procession will follow in which the kami is invoked at the shrine & escorted in a mikoshi (portable shrine) to a place of celebration & subsequently back to the shrine.
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Shinto: The way of the gods - the indigenous faith of the Japanese people. It does not have a founder nor does it have sacred scriptures like the sutras or the bible. Instead, believers worship kami which are sacred spirits and can take forms such as natural elements like the sun, the wind, mountains, trees & rocks, or ancestors, national heroes or abstract things like fertility. Leave a Comment
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Jinyosha: The building in which the mikoshi are stored (Mikoshi-gura).
An important element of Shinto are festival processions. The kami are carried through the streets in mikoshi (palanquins) by people in special dresses. Leave a Comment
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Kami Jinko (Upper Treasuries): One of the 3 sacred storehouses (Sanjinko) of the shrine.
It contains such treasures as historical costumes for the annual festival which Toshogu is so famous for. Leave a Comment
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TOSHOGU SHRINE: Completed in 1636 & dedicated to the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
This is the Yomeimon.
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