Photos of a massive red shrine gate that appears to be floating in the sea is one of the most iconic images of Japan. The gate is the great torii of Itsukushima Shrine on the small island in the Seto ...
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Japan's Meiji Jingu shrine hosts thousands during annual dedicationA 65-year-old U.S. citizen named Steven Lee Hayes on Nov. 14 was accused of defacing the shrine's entry gate. Japanese authorities accused Hayes of using his fingernails to scratch his initials in ...
Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...
A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...
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American tourist arrested in Japan for defacing a religious shrine by carving into gate with his fingernailsA 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan after being accused of vandalizing ... into the wooden pillar of Meiji shrine gate in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward around 11am on Tuesday ...
The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...
Religion in Japan worships nature as a god and I felt ... which erupts as the shrine gate opens, sending their hopes to the heavens above. Oto Matsuri fire festival On July 14, the famous Kumano ...
The gate, designated an important ... He also has crisscrossed Japan to study architectural heritages firsthand. The number of shrines, temples and castles he has visited exceeds 180.
Said to be founded 2,300 years ago in 282 BCE, Aso Jinja is one of Japan’s most prestigious shrines.
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