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17 Feb 2019

EDO - Narihira district Sumida

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Narihira district Sumida

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Narihira 業平 Narihira district
Sumida, Narihira 一丁目 - 三丁目 first to third sub-district

Named after . Ariwara no Narihira 在原業平 (852 - 880) .
Waka poet of the Heian period.

The Narihirazuka 業平塚 Mound for Narihira used to be in the compound of 南蔵院 Nanzo-In and 業平神社 Narihira Shrine.
Narihira had visited this area and the mound in in his memory. Legend says he died here.
The name of the bridge, 業平橋 Narihirabashi, is also very old.
In 1662 the bridge was built East of the Shrine 業平神社 Narihira Jinja.

The name of this area in rather new, since 1872 when 小梅業平町 Koume Narihiracho was formed, and renamed in 1930.
Now famous for being close to the Tokyo Skytree Tower.

source : edo.amebaownd.com/posts,,, 小梅業平町 Koume Narihira Cho
業平橋 Narihirabashi and 東京スカイツリー Tokyo Skytree

南蔵院も葛飾区に Nanzo-In has been moved to Katsushika ward.
It is famous for the statue of
. Shibarare Jizoo 縛られ地蔵 . しばられ地蔵 Jizo bound by ropes .

The old river 大横川 Oyokogawa is now almost completely reclaimed, to become
大横川親水公園 Oyokogawa Shinsui Koen Park.

The park has 5 zones :
釣川原 Tsurikawara, 河童川原 Kappakawara, 花紅葉 Hanamomiji, パレットプラザ Palette Plaza
and ブルーテラス Blue Terrace.

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小梅業平町 Koume Narihiracho became 東駒形四丁目 Higashi-Komagata 4th sub-district.
中ノ郷業平町 Nakanogo Narihiracho became first and second sub-district of Narihira.
In 1967, it merged with 平川橋1-5丁目 Hirakawabashi 1 to 5th sub-district to become Narihira.

The former Shrine 業平天神社 Narihira Tenjinsha, who gave the name to the area, was lost.

Another theory about the name includes the grave of a Samurai from Chiba,
里見成平 Satomi Narihira.

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. Yanagishima 柳島 Yanagishima district "Island of Willow Trees" .
Meguro ward 墨田区 toward Koto ward 江東区 :
墨田区業平 Narihira - 横川 Yokogawa - 太平 Taihei - 錦糸 Kinshi and Koto ward 江東区亀戸 Kameido

. Kinshi 錦糸 Kinshi district "brocade thread" .

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押上天祖神社 Oshiage Tenso Shrine
東京都墨田区業平2-13-6 / 2 Chome Narihira, Sumida

. Oshiage 押上 Oshiage district, Sumida .

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Narihira no shijimi 業平のシジミ / 　業平しじみ Shijimi corbicula shells from Narihira

source : www2.ssh.nir.jp/~y-yoshi-1234/azuma....

They are collected near the 業平橋 Narihirabashi bridge. They are rather small, but have an appealing taste.
They were sold in many parts of Edo.

. shijimi 蜆 (しじみ) corbicula . - Corbicula japonica

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. Narihira Ki 業平忌 Narihira Memorial Day .
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業平忌京に居たがる京をんな
Narihira ki Kyoo ni sumitagaru Kyoo onna

Narihira memorial day -
as a woman from Kyoto I want to live
in Kyoto

笠井百合彦 Kasai Yurihiko

業平忌かもめの声の潮さび
Narihira ki kamome no koe no shio sabi

Narihira memorial day -
the call of the seagulls
so sad in the tide

永方裕子

業平をうつつにすなる薪能
Narihira o utsutsu ni sunaru akigi noo

千原草之

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EDO - Kinshi district Sumida

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Kinshi district Sumida

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Kinshi 錦糸 Kinshi district - "brocade thread"
Sumida ward, Kinshi 一丁目 - 四丁目 first to fourth sub-district
former name 錦糸町 Kinshicho, Kinshimachi

The name goes back to the old canal 錦糸堀 Kinshibori.
Around 1660, the area of Honjo was developed and the Kinshibori canal built.
Some say it is a local dialect for 岸堀 Kishibori "canal at the shore".
Another possibility mentions kinshi 琴糸 strings for a Koto, that were made nearby.

In the ghost stories of 本所七不思議 Honjo Nanafushigi is the canal
置いてけぼり / おいてけ堀 Oitekebori, said to have been the Kinshibori.

. Oitekebori, Oiteke-bori 置いてけ堀 / 置行堀 / 置いてけぼり "leave it behind - canal" .
This canal is near Kinshicho 錦糸町.

The fishermen heard the call to "leave it behind" and threw their catch back in the water or left their baskets just standing there.
One legend advises to throw three fish back into the canal. If you do not do so, you will get lost on your way back home and wander around the whole night.
kinshi 禁止 "don't do this" ... turned into 錦糸.

One legend tells of a 河童 Kappa, who took the catch.
It even got its own statue in the 錦糸堀公園 Kinshibori Park.

source : majin.myhome.cx/pot-au-feu...
Looking for Kappa in おいてけ堀 Oitekebori

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The area developed around Kinshichoo eki 錦糸町駅 Kinshicho Station.

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KINSHICHO / KAMEIDO
... When we get off the train at Kinshicho Station, we first head towards the shopping in the buildings lined up outside of the South Exit. There is a monument in memory of Ito Sachio inscribed with one of his poems. Believe it or not, back during the Meiji Period (1868-1912), this area mainly was used for ranches. Ito wrote various works during his time while running a cow-milking business here.
Termina, a department store directly connected to the station, offers everything from clothing, to household goods, to groceries. The adjacent amusement facility of Tokyo Rakutenchi offers saunas and natural hot spring baths as a way to relax after your shopping and enjoying things like the movie theaters and bowling alleys.
WINS Kinshicho,
off-track horse racing and betting, is located on Keiyo Road across from the station rotary. Just behind the building sits Koto-ji temple. Kobayashi Ichizo, a businessman who developed the Tokyo Rakutenchi (noted before), built this temple wishing for the city's development and enshrined Koto Kannon in the temple. The horse-headed deity Bato Kannon can also be found on the grounds and just may have some connection with the nearby WINS complex.
Oiteke-bori
A five-minute walk to the south of Kinshicho Station takes us to Kinshibori Park. A statue of a kappa (a river monster) stands at this site that was previously the Kinshi-bori moat, or more popularly known as "Oiteke-bori."
According to one of the local ghost stories, "The Seven Mysteries of Honjo," back during the Edo Period (1603-1867), some people were out fishing in the moat and caught an abnormally large amount of fish one day. Just as they were about to happily go home with their big catch, a scary voice was came from somewhere inside the moat saying, "Oiteke! (Leave your things and get out of here!)" Everyone was terrified but still took their fish baskets and hurried home.
Upon arrival, they reluctantly opened their fish baskets only to find them completely empty. ...
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shopping mall アルカキット錦糸町 Arcakit Kinshicho
2 Chome-2-１ Kinshi, Sumida

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. Yanagishima 柳島 Yanagishima district "Island of Willow Trees" .
Meguro ward 墨田区 toward Koto ward 江東区 :
墨田区業平 Narihira - 横川 Yokogawa - 太平 Taihei - 錦糸 Kinshi and Koto ward 江東区亀戸 Kameido

. Narihira 業平 Narihira district . - Sumida

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朝顔の鉢を舗道に錦糸町
asagao no hachi o hodoo ni Kinshichoo

pots of morning glories
placed on the pavement -
Kinshicho
Tr. Gabi Greve

轡田進 Kutsuwada Susumu

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. asagao ichi 朝顔市 market selling morning glories .
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Iriya asagao ichi 入谷朝顔市 market at Iriya in Edo

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. Sumida ku, Sumida-ku 墨田区 Sumida ward, "ink field" .

. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .

. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

. Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction .

. shokunin 職人 craftsman, craftsmen, artisan, Handwerker .

. senryu, senryū 川柳　Senryu poems in Edo .

. Japanese Architecture - The Japanese Home .

. Interior Design - The Japanese Home .

. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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15 Feb 2019

EDO - 100 views

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Edo Tokyo Hyakkei 100 Views

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Edo Tokyo Hyakkei 百景 100 views of Edo / Tokyo

Maybe the most famous is
Meisho Edo Hyakkei 名所江戸百景 One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
by 歌川広重 Utagawa Hiroshige

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Shin Tokyo Hyakkei 新東京百景

In 1928, a group of eight Japanese artists got together to produce a series of prints, called
Shin Tokyo Hyakkei, One Hundred Views of New Tokyo, New One Hundred Views of Tokyo

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Shin Tokyo Hyakkei:
The Eastern Capital Revisited by the Modern Print Artists
by James B. Austin
In his introduction to the catalogue of modern Japanese prints exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago early in 1960, Oliver Statler distinguishes four generation of sosaku hanga artists.
First came the pioneers, men such as Yamamoto Kanae and Tobari Kogan who pointed the way. Then came a second generation "who created a sound intellectual base for the movement, who fought through to recognition of their prints as serious art, and who, by their personal magnetism, attracted scores of younger artists." This was the generation which began to reach artistic maturity in the early days of Showa. Though few of them had, at that time, achieved either the artistic freedom or personal style which was to characterize their later work, all were experimenting. Moreover, they were collectively striving to form some viable association which would solidify the movement and nurture its growth. These efforts, from the acceptance of such prints at the Government show of 1927 to the formation of the Nippon Hanga Kyokai in 1931, are described by Onchi in his Nippon Gendai Hanga (of which a partial translation in English appeared in Ukiyo-e Art, No. 11, 1965) and by Fujikake in his book, Japanese Wood-Block Prints (1938).
An interesting and revealing example of this tendency
was a group of eight artists who, in 1928, banded together to publish, over the next four years, a series of prints entitled Shin Tokyo Hyakkei (One Hundred Views of New Tokyo).
These artists were
Hiratsuka Un-ichi, Onchi Koshiro, Fukazawa Sakuichi, Kawakami Sumio, Maekawa Sempan, Fujimori Shizuo, Hemmi Takashi and Suwa Kanemori.
Hiratsuka recalls that this series was planned so that many aspects of Tokyo could be "remembered by people for a long time." In this connection, one must keep in mind that much of Tokyo had been destroyed in the great earthquake and fire of 1923 so that the city and its life which the artists wished to depict were, in many respects, rather new.
One cannot help wondering whether they were intending, consciously or unconsciously, to record the current scene against the possibility of new disasters. They were, in a way, repeating what Hiroshige had done 75 years before in his Meisho Edo Hyakkei series.
01. HYAKKEN-TEN, SHIBUYA
13. ATAGOYAMA RADIO STATION
26. NIJUBASHI
39. BOTANICAL GARDENS, UENO
52. NIHONBASHI
64. AOYAMA CEMETARY
76. SHIBA ZOJOJI TEMPLE
89. SHIMBASHI EMBUJO
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- source : myjapanesehanga.com/home...

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Another list of Tokyo 新東京百景一覧
compiled in 1982.
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. 73 田無山総持寺 Tanashisan Soji-Ji .

新東京百景 by 山口瞳 Yamaguchi Hitomi

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Tokyo Shitamachi Hyakkei (Japanese Edition)
by Tsuchimochi Shinji
歌川広重の「名所江戸百景」をモチーフに、東京に今なお残る下町の風景を切り取ったつちもちしんじ「下町百景」シリーズ
"100 Views of Tokyo" gets the idea from "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo", Hiroshige Utagawa's works.
These artworks were rendered views of extant old town in Tokyo. It published on the web and created a sensation until finish in 2016. We gather these works into one book. Moreover, we added newly drawn pictures like guide maps of 3 areas in Tokyo and 5 Views of Osaka.
This book is written in Japanese and English. Therefore this is the most suitable gift from Japan or for friends in Japan.

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. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .

. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

. Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction .

. shokunin 職人 craftsman, craftsmen, artisan, Handwerker .

. senryu, senryū 川柳　Senryu poems in Edo .

. Japanese Architecture - The Japanese Home .

. Interior Design - The Japanese Home .

. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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12 Feb 2019

EDO - Takinogawa district

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Takinogawa district Kita

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Takinogawa 滝野川 / 瀧野川 Takinogawa district
北区 Kita, 滝野川一丁目から滝野川七丁目 from the first to the seventh sub-district
滝之川 / 滝の川 - Taki no Kawa, Takinokawa

The river Shakuji-I gawa 石神井川 became quite steep and fast at 板橋区加賀 Kaga in Itabashi and this part was called
Takinokawa 滝野川 "Waterfall River"

There used to be at least seven natural waterfalls of the river Shakuji-I gawa 石神井川, also called 滝野川 Takinogawa in Edo.
. Edo no taki 江戸の滝 waterfalls in Edo .

There were two main sub-districts :
滝野川西地区 Takinogawa Western area
滝野川東地区 Takinogawa Eastern area

In 1889, the area was called
滝野川村 Takinogawa mura village
and in 1913
滝野川町 Takinogawa cho town
In 1923 it became part of Tokyo and was named
滝野川区 Takinogawa ku ward
In 1942, this ward was renamed
王子区 Oji ku ward
In 1967, the seventh sub-district, 滝野川七丁目 was added.

瀧野川紅葉 Maple leaves at Takinogawa
広重 Hiroshige II

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Takinogawabashi 滝野川橋 Takonogawa bridge
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Takinogawa kooen 滝野川公園 Takinogawa Koen Park
even with a waterfall in the park and a walk along the river.

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Takinogawa Hachiman Jinja 瀧野川八幡神社 Shrine
北区滝野川５丁目２６−１５

Built in 1202.
The main hall was restored in 1885.
The prayer hall was restored in 1922.
There used to be a market of vegetable seeds.

- Deity in residence
品陀和氣命（ほんだわけのみこと）Hondawake no Mikoto - 應神天皇 / 応神天皇 Ojin Tenno (200 - 310)

goshuin　御朱印 stamp - to win in sports 勝

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0oji Fudoo no Taki 王子不動之滝 Fudo Waterfall in Oji, Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

There used to be at least seven waterfalls of the river Shakuji-I gawa 石神井川,
also called Takinogawa 滝野川 in Edo.
People came here in summer to feel the cool, have a snack and relax.
Now part of Nerima ward.
. Fudo Myo-O and waterfalls in Edo .
The statue of Fudo 滝不動尊 is now preserved at the temple 正受院 Shoju-In
(北区滝野川2-49-5) Kita-ku, Takinogawa.

. Edo no taki 江戸の滝 waterfalls in Edo .

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Maple season at Takinogawa, Oji, Tokyo, c. 1910.
"A notice of the floral festivals of the year as observed in Japan demands some mention of the maple – for the reddening leaf of the maple, like the foliage of many other blossomless trees, is regarded as a flower in Japan.
"The rich tints of the changing leaves of certain deciduous trees hardly distinguishable from the colouring of blossoming shrubs, such as the azalea, form a favourite object of attraction during the Autumn months. The native term, momiji, which is commonly translated 'maple', is, strictly speaking, a general name applied to many trees which redden in the Fall.

"Of the maple itself, there are many varieties distinguished both by the form of their leaves and the tone of their changing colour. No garden is considered complete without its group of such reddening trees, placed beside some artificial hill towards the West, to receive additional splendour from the setting sun.

"… At Ko-no-dai, a famous prominence commanding a view of the whole plain of Tokio, there are some magnificent maple trees noted for their enormous size … About the end of October, in the glen called Taki-no-gawa at Oji, a suburb of Tokio, the slopes of a natural glen between the hills are planted with thick masses of these trees forming a most romantic spot where from the galleries of a rustic arbour the sight of the foliage in all its burning splendour may be enjoyed. Shinagawa and Meguro, other well known spots in the vicinity of the capital, have also good groups of maples which attract many sight seers. Picnicking and mushroom gathering are pastimes which accompany the viewing of the maple.

"In the poems and pictures of the country, the maple is associated with deer:
How full of sorrow seems the Autumn! when
In solitary rambles slowly straying,
Amid the russet foliage of the glen,
I listen to the lonely stag's sad baying."

– The Floral Art of Japan: The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement, Josiah Conder, 1899
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岩屋弁天 Iwaya Benten - 弁天の滝 Benten Waterfall
松橋弁天洞窟 Matsubashi Benten cave does not exist any more.

北区滝野川3-88-17Kita ward, Takinogawa / 金剛寺 Temple Kongo-Ji

Bentendoo 辨天堂 Benten Do Hall

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. Edo roku Benten 江戸六弁天 Six famous Benten in Edo .

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. Takinogawa ninjin 滝野川人参 carrots .

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EDO - Susaki district Koto

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Susaki, Suzaki 洲崎 / 須崎 / 州崎 Susaki district
Koto ward, 東京都江東区東陽一丁目の旧町名　The old name for 東陽一 Higashiyoichi first sub-district

Due to landfill in the early Edo period, this area became known as
深川洲崎十万坪 Fukagawa Susaki Jumantsubo.
It was known for its beautiful scenery.
In 1888, a pleasure quarter from Nezu was moved here.
Until 1958 there was a large pleasure quarter, the 洲崎パラダイス Susaki paradise".

There is also an area called Susaki in 墨田区向島5丁目 the fifth sub-district of Mukojima in Sumida ward, with the spelling 須崎.
Another Susaki 洲崎 is known in 千葉県 Chiba and 神奈川県 Kanagawa.

In the Edo period the river 小名木川 Konagigawa was used for transportation from the Susaki area to the fish markets of Edo.
In 1791, there was a great flooding of the area and many merchants lost their estates. Since then the Bakufu government forbid to build living quarters in Susaki.
The area was always popular for shiohigari 潮干狩り hunting for clams and seafood on the shore

Jūmantsubo 深川州崎十万坪 Jumantsubo Plain at Fukagawa Susaki
Utagawa Hiroshige

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Susaki Benten 洲崎弁天
浮弁天州崎神社 Uki Benten, Shrine Susaki Jinja
江東区木場6-13-13 Koto ward, Kiba

- Fukagawa Susaki Benten
Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Shrine Susaki Jinja 州崎神社

The Shrine was under the special protection of the mother of 将軍徳川綱吉 Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.
People came here to pray for protection from water disasters and for good fishing.
The Shrine was on a small island on the beach, thus called
uki-Benten 浮き弁天 the floating Benten shrine

In modern times all this became landfilled and nothing of the atmosphere of Edo is left.

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. Edo roku Benten 江戸六弁天 Six famous Benten in Edo .

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hamaguri 蛤 clam shell
At the beach of 洲崎浜 Suzakihama in Shinagawa, in the eleventh lunar month,
some fishermen were peeling clam shells, when they found one with a very small golden statue of 地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu inside,

. hamaguri 蛤 clam shell, Venus clam .

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. Edo, Tokyo　江戸 - 東京 - 伝説 Legends Index .

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洲さき汐干かり shiohigari at Fukagawa Susaki 深川洲崎 in Spring
Hiroshige

. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .

深川や桃の中より汐干狩
Fukagawa ya momo no naka yori shiohigari

Fukagawa !
through the peach blossoms
people are gathering shells
Tr. Gabi Greve

. WKD : shiohigari 汐干狩 hunting (for clams and seafood) on the shore .
shiohigari - gathering shells and small seafood at low tide.
Fukagawa had a great flatland tidal area where people could collect cheap seafood.

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7 Feb 2019

SHRINE - Keihin Fushimi Inari

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Keihin Fushimi Inari Kawasaki

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京浜伏見稲荷神社 Keihin Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kanagawa

神奈川県川崎市中原区新丸子東2-980 / 2-980 Shinmarukohigashi, Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki, Kanagawa

The Shrine was founded in 1951 to become a place of worship for the many new residents in the nearby Tower Mansion (Tawaman) district.
It should give the residents a place to come and talk and make friends.
In 1954 the great iron Torii was erected, about 14 m high

In the compound are 108 statues of foxes, carved by a master in more than 20 years.
108 is the number of earthly desires in Buddhist lore.
The foxes take all kinds of poses and seem to enjoy themselves a lot.
And among them there is just one green animal . . . a frog.

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There is a row of rather small Torii gates for children to walk through.

A pond imitating Lake Biwako brings some coolness in summer.
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This shrine is dependent on the main Fushimi Shrine in Kyoto.
The Deity in residence is
常磐稲荷大神 Inari no Kami

. Fushimi Inari Taisha 伏見稲荷大社 Kyoto.

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There is also a small replica of the Shrine
Fuji Asama Jinja 富士浅間神社
This kind of Fujizuka 富士塚 mound is rather auspicious in many parts of Tokyo.

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shuin　朱印 stamp

- stamp book

omamori お守り　amulets

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