Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺) Temple, Kyoto City
Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺） or Kiyomizu Temple is located on the side of the Higashiyama Mountains in eastern Kyoto City. Kiyomizudera is a very famous temple, not only in Kyoto city but throughout Japan. This temple is known for it's large hanging platform from a mountain edge.
Hence the expression take the plunge at Kiyomizudera that this temple is famously known for. It does not mean that people should be jumping off the temple's platform but it urges people to follow their dreams and goals.
This temple is close to the city center and is very popular with tourists both foreign and Japanese.
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DOGO ONSEN, A BAMBOO FOREST, AND A HAUNTED CAVE?!: Ehime, Shikoku, Japan!
Hi, everyone! I've FINALLY edited this footage! This is from our trip to Shikoku before we moved from Okayama to Fukuoka, Japan. We went straight to Matsuyama, Ehime to soak in Dogo Onsen (Japan's OLDEST hot spring). This onsen is also famous for being the onsen which inspired Spirited Away one of the most famous Studio Ghibli movies!
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Traditional festival fills Kyoto's streets
SHOTLIST :
1. Exterior Yasaka Shrine
2. Various of men carrying 'mikoshi' or float
3. Float being carried into position
4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kawauchi Masashi, chairman of the Nishiki Market youth group:
Gion Matsuri is Yasaka Shrine's festival and Yasaka Shrine possesses three 'mikoshi'. Of these three 'mikoshi' one is known as Nishi Goza and we (the people connected to the Nishiki Market) are the volunteers responsible for bearing it.
5. Wide of the shrine
6. Men tying themselves to the float
7. Various of man tying rice seedlings to out on top of float
8. Men preparing the float for transit
9. Two men tie the nagae wooden supports to the float
10. Close up of the knot
11. Various of mikoshi being lifted and carried by bearers
12. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kawauchi Masashi, chairman of the (Nishiki Market) youth group:
A mikoshi means a vehicle in which a deity or deities ride. Riding in the 'Nishi Goza', the mikoshi that we carry, are the deities known as 'Yahishirano no Mikogami.' Normally we go to the shrine to pay homage to these deities but on the day of the festival conversely they do us the honour of coming to us.
13. A Shinto priest performing a purification ceremony in front of Yasaka Shrine
14. Main gate of Yasaka Shrine with float bearers in the foreground
15. The 'Nishiki' mikoshi being lifted
16. Various of procession of the floats
17. Three apprentice Geisha watching procession
18. Floats being carried through city
19. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kawauchi Masashi, chairman of the (Nishiki Market) youth group:
When you carry the mikoshi it's incredibly heavy and it's really tiring. At the time I some times wonder why on earth I'm doing it but after two or three days I'm always itching to do it again. Just seeing the mikoshi fires me up from head to toe!
20. Various of float
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Japan is known for its traditions including Geisha and tea ceremonies.
Religious festivals also play a large part in Japanese society as seen in Kyoto where the ancient Gion Matsuri festival takes place.
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This float or 'mikoshi' weighs almost 2 tons and is part of Gion, one of the most colourful Shinto festivals in Japan.
Described as Japan's largest and most revered festival, it lasts a month and takes place in the ancient city of Kyoto.
This festival is hosted by the Yasaka Shrine, and is located on the periphery of Gion, an area in Kyoto city.
Gion Matsuri brings together local tradesmen, supporters of local shrines and Kyoto residents - all of whom want to show reverence to local deities.
Wearing loin cloths and 'happi' jackets denoting their affiliations to certain shrines, hundreds of local men and women lug huge the highly decorative floats through the streets.
Kawauchi Masashi the chairman of the Nishiki Market youth group is a regular participant in the festival. He says his group, which is connected to the Nishiki market, cary one of the floats.
As the floats are carried down the streets they are thrown around and twisted on the shoulders of the men.
Here a man is tying seedlings to place on top of the float. The seedlings are an offering to the deities for a good harvest.
The people taking part in the festival tie themselves onto the floats.
Kawauchi Masashi says this is the one time of the year when the gods comes to visit the people rather than vice versa.
The event stretches through the whole month of July and was first held in the year 869 when Emperor Seiwa ordered a festival to banish a plague that was in city.
Through a series of rites and purification rituals it was believed that the deities of the Yasaka Shrine would quell the evil spirits that were thought to be the cause of disease and restore public health to the city of Kyoto.
And it can be painful.
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Kitano Tenmangu (北野天満宮）Shrine, Kyoto City
Kitano Tenmangu Shrine (北野天満宮） is located northwest of Kyoto City, close to the Kinkakuji Temple.
Kitano Tenmangu Shrine is popular with students because it enshrines the Deity of Learning in Japanese Culture Sugawara-no-Michizane. Sugawara-no-Michizane, who is commonly referred to as Kitano-no-Tenjin-san, is a Heian era Scholar and statesman.
This shrine is founded in 947 and one of the most popular and crowded (mostly with students) shrines in Kyoto city and all of Japan throughout the year.
The Main Worship Hall is a beautiful construction to watch, is built in 1600s and is considered as a national treasure.
Hope you get a chance to visit this Shrine and enjoy it.
Nanzenji Temple (南禅寺）, Kyoto City
Nanzenji Temple （南禅寺） is a Zen Temple belonging to the Rinzai Sect-Nanzenji School of Zen Buddhism. This temple is located in the upper/central east side of Kyoto city, at the foothills of the Higashiyama mountains. At one time this temple is considered above the five great Zen temples of Kyoto City.
This temple has a large Gate at it's entrance called sanmon, and it is almost as large as the Gate at Tofukuji Temple. In the eastern permises of the temple, there is a roman aquaduct style elevated brick waterway, belonging to a Lake Biwa (Biwako) Canal.
There are thirteen sub temples in the temple complex.
節分 Setsubun Kagura - Japanese Storm God vs Giant Serpent (Iwami Kagura - Orochi)
Setsubun is a Japanese Spring Ritual where people drive away bad luck and evil. At a small shrine in Matsuyama, Shikoku they perform a sacred dance known as kagura which depicts an old legend of Susanoo no Mikoto the Japanese god of Storms fighting a giant evil serpent Yamata no Orochi
Kimono Girls Tour in Ehime 着物女子旅♪
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I joined a kimono girls tour by Unique Tour and explored the southern part of Ehime! We got to make our own moss balls koke dama and Japanese sweets wagashi.
ユニークツアーさん主催の着物女子旅に参加してきました！愛媛の南にある内子・大洲で苔玉や和菓子づくりを体験★
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雪の京都 平野神社 / Snow in Hirano Shrine (Kyoto, Japan)
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平野神社へ初詣。雪景色が綺麗でした。
Mikoshi
Mikoshi is a portable Shinto shrine featured in many traditional Japanese festivals. Shinto followers believe that it serves as the vehicle to transport a deity in. It is also looked upon as a symbolic centrepiece for community gatherings, where people of various social groups can come together.
【Yoshimi,Saitama】 Iwamuro Kannon 岩室観音 【埼玉県比企郡吉見町】
KitaYoshimi,Yoshimi,Hikigun,Saitama,Japan
sounds:mono
埼玉県比企郡吉見町北吉見
音声はモノラルです
Mikoshi Event-Gion Matsuri
During Gion Matsuri, the Yamahoko (float) parade usually gets the lime light and attention. Although there's less buzz generated, the Mikoshi (portable shrine) plays an important role in the Gion Matsuri.
Here is a video showing the 3 parts to the Mikoshi event.
Stage 1: On the 10th, the Shinto Priests are gathering the water to wash the Mikoshi. Sacred Water is collected in the morning from the river under the Shijo-Ohashi Bridge. Then the Shinto priests have a ceremony to bless the water by the Kamo river. This water is later used to wash the Mikoshi at night.
Stage 2: On the night of the 10th, The Mikosi arai (portable shrine washing rite) takes place on the Shijo-Ohashi Bridge. There are 3 Mikoshi in total but only one comes out for the parade. Men of all sizes wearing happi come together to carry the Mikoshi from Yasaka shrine to the Shijo-Ohashi Bridge and back again. It is believed that the Mikoshi is carrying a god named Susanoonomikoto. Before the Mikoshi hits the road, torches are lit and make their way through the path to make sure the path is purified for the god to pass through. On the bridge, water collected earlier that day is used to wash the Mikoshi. Also the water is splashed on people as it is believed it prevents people from getting sick. As a spectator, this is when you have to be careful and not to get wet. Although, it was nice to feel the cold water hitting your face on such a hot day.
Stage 3: On the 17th, all three Mikoshi come out for the parade. Each Mikoshi takes a different route to go around the city. With men in happi working together, chanting away, drinking sake while they carry a very heavy Mikoshi, the air is filled with testosterone and pride. The men are chanting the words 'hoito hoito'. The word doesn't have a meaning but it's chanted to encourage and motivate each other. Hoito, Hotio!!!
Thirteen Mikoshi Gathered at Shrine Festival, Kawaguchi, Japan [iPhone 4S/HD]
Kawaguchi Shrine, initially built in 10th century, is being worshipped as the guardian god of my city Kawaguchi. The autumn festival is held at the historical Shinto shrine every October. Every couple of years, many mikoshi, or portable shrines, gather at the festival from neighboring areas and parade around the shrine. Thirteen mikoshi joined it this year. They left the shrine one after another on a sunny morning, paraded around vigorously and gathered again at the square in front of Kawaguchi Station, to perform a spectacle together.
- Shot in 1080p full HD with an iPhone 4S on Oct. 21st, 2012
omikoshi in kyoto --matsuri--
Tenno-sai Festival, Enoshima 天王祭
Held on the first to second Sunday in July. A large mikoshi (portable shrine) from Yasaka Shrine on Enoshima is carried from the shrine to Koyuguri Shrine on the mainland. Along the way, the mikoshi is carried into the ocean. On the mainland, the Yasaka mikoshi is met with a mikoshi from Koyuguri Shrine. They then parade together along a shopping street before the Yasaka mikoshi goes back to Enoshima at around 6 pm. Photos here:
Japan 2019
A first visit to beautiful Japan.
Taking in the sights of Tokyo City and Kyoto with visits to Gion, Fushimi-Nari Temple, Shinjuku, Akihabara, Odaiba, Harajuku, Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, Kiyomizu-dera, Honen-in Temple, Kurama-dera Mountain Temple plus many more.
A beautiful country full of amazing sights.
Kendo Conpetition at Yasaka Shrine 奉納試合
Kids Kendo competition that dedicates to the Shinsengumi.
This was a part of Shinsengumi Festival in 2006.
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kiyomizudera Temple lightup@kyoto
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Nagaoka Tenmangu Shrine, Kyoto Prefecture
Nagaoka Tenmangu Shrine is located in Nagaoka-kyo city in Kyoto Prefecture. Nagaoka-kyo city is the neighboring city to Kyoto City and was the original ancient capital of Japan in the late eight century.
Like all Tenmangu shrines, this shrine is also dedicated to Michizane Sugawara. Michizane Sugawara is revered as the Shinto god of learning and education. It is said that when he was exiled to Dazaifu town in Fukuoka Prefecture, on the way to Fukuoka, he stopped by at this location. Since then a shrine was built to revere Michizane Sugawara.