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My Actifit Report Card: September 24 2025

Today was another long, happy, day. We went to Harajuku to check out Takeshita St, the Harry Potter store, and, most importantly, the Meiji-Jingu Shrine. I'm not

🥦Mizuo's Travel Blog🥦No.32 - 2/3- Kyoto, Japan 🇯🇵 - Dec. 2022

🥦Mizuo's Travel Blog🥦No.32 - Kyoto, Japan 🇯🇵 - Dec. 2022 👉👉👉Please read my previous blog about my visit in Kyoto! The pealing of the bells of the Jetavana

Travel Blog - My first trip to Japan - Shrines & Temples

To return to the Main Blog BACKGROUND This will be the section for Shrines, Temples, and related things. I hope you enjoy these, as this was the most highly requested

Visit of the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kobe

Hello everyone, A few days ago, I told you about our little visit to Kobe in the Kitano Ijikan-Gai district. In this area, some European and American merchants settled

Ich habe das Tenchi Kakitsuke gezeichnet

Da es seit einigen Tagen regnet, habe ich mir mal die Zeit genommen, um das Tenchi Kakitsuke zu zeichnen. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Lehre aus dem Shinto. Und

⛩️Mein erstes Goshuin und Goshinmai⛩️

Ich habe mein erstes Goshinmai 御神米 und ein Goshuin 御朱印 erhalten worüber ich mich sehr gefreut habe! Besucht man ein Schrein, dann wird ein Goshuin angefertigt, welches

## Komainu - Guardian Dog of the shrine - 04102022 It's a komainu whic ...

Komainu - Guardian Dog of the shrine - 04102022 It's a komainu which is located in front of the shinto ⛩️ shrine. I met this komainu in Tokushim, Japan 🇯🇵 #tokushima

The Rising Sun ~ Beautiful Japan

The side of the main rōmon gate at Iga Hachiman Shrine, with the rising sun flag in the background. This is a closeup of the rōmon (楼門), the tower gate marking

The Sacred Bridge ~ Shrines of Japan

The famous Shinkyō bridge (神橋) in Nikkō, or Sacred Bridge. It is considered one of the three most beautiful bridges in Japan and is a World Heritage site. It leads

Frohes neues Jahr!

Heute ist der erste Tag des neuen Jahres und der Tag an dem ich die Shide (紙垂) erneuerte und die alten ersetze. Diese Falttechnik ist garnicht mal so leicht. Aber

PhotoJournal – Visiting Izumo Taisha Shinto shrine, Japan

The most holy site We were in for a real treat. Flying to Izumo from Shizuoka, we got our rental car and drove to Taisha shrine in spite of the rain. What a stunning

PhotoJournal – Visiting Kotohira-gu, Japan

An ascent into the clouds After visiting friends who run a guest house on the hillside of Onomichi, we crossed a series of high bridges, island hopping, to get to

Sacred Tree at Shrine ~ Holy Japan

Trees give peace to the souls of men. —Nora Waln You'll usually find at least a few sacred trees like this at Shinto Shrines, trees with a shimenawa (標縄) wrapped

The Garden Shrine ~ Religion in Japan

Shinto shrines for superstitious employees and customers. Strange as it may seem, many hotels have Shinto shrines nearby so that customers can go pray if the need

🥦Mizuo´s Travel Blog🥦 No.3: Kitano Tenmagu, Kyoto, Japan. 2018

Kitano Tenmangu, Kyoto, Japan Kitano Tenmangu - Wikipedia I have been sorting out my old pictures to quench my travel drive during this Covid19 pandemic. As I am

Buzz of the Cicada

Walking own the path at Shiratori Shrine (白鳥神社) in Okazaki Japan. I need to redo this video in a higher resolution, but I've lost the original file and I forget

Komainu ~ Japanese Guard Lion-Dogs

These angry looking guys are known as komainu (狛犬, koh-my-new), often translated as “lion-dog”. They are present at many Shinto shrines and occasionally other places

Walking at Shiratori ~ Japanese Shrines

Enter into the shrine. This is the entrance to Shiratori Shrine (白鳥神社). This shrine is next to the very first apartment I lived at in Japan. Or, was next to. The

Enter the War God's Shrine ~ Impressive Japan

Quite an impressive gate here, eh? Well, kind of normal, actually. We've seen this style of gate before. (In my post about Ieyasu's family shrine). The clouds do

Shinto religion's Influence on Japanese Animation

I wrote this essay around 2012 for the University of Maryland, which published the article in some local school newspaper, can't find the digital version (Maybe