Awestruck At The Fushimi Inari Shrine

Edit Forbes 27 Mar 2016
Comprised of over 14,000 striking orange torii gates, this mountain monument is a three-hour hike full of human accomplishments, natural beauty, and spiritual mystery ... ....

EFF (in)Transition Preview Screening and UK premiere of The Festival of (In)Appropriation (Birkbeck - University of London)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Mar 2016
(Source. Birkbeck - University of London). [in]Transition. Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies is the world's first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies ... Soft Pong Inari, dir ... A visual experiment in crowd-sourcing, Soft Pong Inari was made entirely from pre-existing photographs of Fushimi Inari Shrine (in Kyoto, Japan) available for modified re-use in the creative commons ... (noodl....

New Haneda guide has tips for travelers on tight schedule

Edit The Japan News 05 Mar 2016
Some content differs between the three editions. The English edition carries information about the Anamori Inari Shrine, which is famous for senbon torii gates (literally “one thousand torii gates”) and “sacred sand.” The Chinese edition focuses on shopping spots, including shopping streets and major discount stores located east and west of JR Kamata Station, in an effort to entice Chinese tourists who like to shop ... Speech ... + - ... ....

Kyoto Hidden Stories / Hopes pass through Senbon-torii gates

Edit The Japan News 02 Mar 2016
By Takuya Matsuda / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff WriterFushimi Inari Taisha, the main shrine of about 30,000 Inari shrines around the nation, is famed for its torii gates ... Inari behind the shrine’s main building, looking like the entrance to a mysterious world ... This is probably because Kyoto’s Shimogyo district, where parishioners of the Fushimi Inari shrine lived, prospered as a town of commerce....

Going, Going, But Not Really Gone

Edit Huffington Post 26 Feb 2016
Fresh information on what's happening to Tsukiji. It's less endangered than you think. Unlike this tuna... The main street of the market ends at a colorful Shinto shrine, Namiyokei Inari Jinja, with massive carved wooden lion dog heads - one red, one black. The shrine was built to placate giant waves washing over Edo-era efforts to reclaim this land from the sea ... Namiyokei Inari Shrine is at the far end of the Outer Market main street ... ....

1,000 Paper Cranes

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
These senbazuru origami cranes with wishes are displayed in the Fushimi Inari Shrine.  Keren Su/The Image Bank/Getty Images. What if you could have one wish? What would it be? According to Japanese tradition, folding 1,000 paper cranes gives you a chance to make one special wish.About the Senbazuru. When 1,000 cranes are folded as a group, they are known as a senbazuru ... 1,000 Paper Cranes for Cancer Awareness ... ....

The City's Best Love Shrine

Edit Huffington Post 13 Feb 2016
Love charm from tiny but powerful Aioi-Sha Shrine, Kyoto ... Packing your heart along with your passport for that trip to Japan? Has Kyoto got a shrine for you!. History and beauty are not the only reasons Japanese choose which of the hundreds of temples and shrines to put on their Kyoto to-do lists ... Back down the steps by the shrine store selling charms, go to the left to visit the ornate Inari Shrine and its fox guardians....

Travel: Step into ‘Spirited Away’ at Egawa

Edit Asia Times 07 Feb 2016
Recently, we’ve been spellbound by the Venice of Japan in Kyoto and the unusual torii gates at Motonosumi Inari Shrine, and now we have another little-known location ......

Stroll through History / Former Kira’s mansion / Site of loyal samurai’s revenge still popular

Edit The Japan News 01 Feb 2016
The Matsuzaka Inari Shrine is located within the remains of the mansion ... A nearby Japanese-style confectionery store called Ryogoku Okawaya continues to take care of the Matsuzaka Inari Shrine located within the park. The shopkeeper Asao Okawa, 63, said his mother, Hisako, continued to make offerings and clean the shrine every morning after she got married not long after World War II....

Japan's Mesmerizing Fushimi-Inari Shrine

Edit About.com 22 Jan 2016
Here sits Fushimi Inari Shrine, a collection of literally thousands of orange Torii gates built right into a forested mountainside ... History of Fushimi Inari Shrine ... These days, most of the thousands of gates that line the path from ground level to the top of the mountain were donated by Japanese businesses.Highlights of Fushimi Inari Shrine ... How to Get to Fushimi Inari Shrine....

Japan: Tech tradition & peace

Edit Deccan Chronicle 17 Jan 2016
Alongside skyscrapers, you find amazing Shinto Shrines, Buddhist temples with pagodas, castles of Shoguns in top cities such as Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and Tokyo ... Kyoto city looks like a chessboard with its 1,068 temples and 820 shrines. And the best-rated tourist spot is the Fushimi Inari Shrine, vividly painted in vermilion. Founded in 711, it is the main shrine of all the 30,000 Inari shrines all over Japan....

Hundreds seek good health in ice bath during Tokyo's annual Shinto ritual

Edit Reuters 11 Jan 2016
Men wearing traditional loin cloths and women clothed in white robes chant before entering an ice water bath during a Shinto ritual at the Teppozu Inari Shrine to purify the soul and wish for good... ....

"Kanchu Misogi" ritual at Tokyo shrine

Edit Kyodo 10 Jan 2016
TOKYO - People bathe in ice water at Teppozu Inari Shrine in Tokyo on Jan. 10, 2016, during the annual "Kanc... ....
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