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New year at Kashihara-Jingu Shrine
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Copyright: keitaro nakamoura (nekoyama)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-01-03 |
| Categories: Festivals |
| Camera: Fuji Finepix s8000fd |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-01-30 22:08 |
| Viewed: 714 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
This is the Kashihara-Jingu Shrine in January 3rd.
As an event for the new year, most of Japanese visit temples or shrines. The first visit to a temple or a shrine in a year is called "HATSUMODE" in Japanese.
According to the press release by the National Police Agency, 98million people (about 76%of population) visited temples and shrines from January 1st to 3rd in this year.
As the HATSUMODE of 2008, I visited Daian-ji Temple. And in January 3rd, I visited Kashihara-Jingu shrine with my friend.
Kashihara-Jingu is not a shrine for a transcendental god, but a mausoleum of the first Emperor of Japan, Emperor Jinmu.
Jinmu is the legendary founder of Japan. According to the chronicles written in the 8th century, Jinmu had declared the foundation of the nation at Kashihara in B.C.660.
Kashihara-Jingu Shrine was founded by the Emperor Meiji in 1890 as the mausoleum of the Emperor Jinmu. It had been a holy place of the state-sanctioned Shintoism before 1945. Existence of Jinmu was the authorized national history. Anyone voices doubt about real existence of Jinmu might be accused as a political offender.
Since the end of WW2, Japanese government allow freedom of research for historians. Today, most of historians and archeologists negate the real existence of Emperor Jinmu. They consider that the story of Emperor Jinmu is just a myth concocted by ancient people.
But Kashihara-Jingu still survive as a nongovernmental shrine. As you see in this picture, many people visit Kashihara-Jingu in the New Year's Holidays even today. For me, most of the visitors don't seem to be conscious of the ancient history nor the modern history of nationalism. For the most people, Kashihara-Jingu is just one of the beautiful shrines to visit in Nara. |
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- Buin
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(25250) - [2008-01-31 12:46]
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Hallo Keitaro!
A great photo - and one with a blue sky! ;-)
You show us a truly impressive building here. I like especially this light on the roof which traces its forms in a wonderful way, and I like all these included people. By the way - a very good and interesting note!.
Greetings from stormy Germany - it rains horizontally! ;-(
Frank
