Word of Mouth Travel Guide - Japan Hopper » Omiwa jinja http://www.japan-hopper.com For all your Japan related needs by word of mouth - Hotels, Restaurants, Activities, and much more! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:20:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 ja Katchaman’s Amazing JAPAN guide at Nara Power Spot (Sacred Place) “Hibara Jinja Shrine in Summer [夏の桧原神社・奈良県]” http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/08/15_172090.php http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/08/15_172090.php#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:46:49 +0000 katchaman http://www.japan-hopper.com/?p=2090 There is a amazing Torii(Gate) in Hibara Jinja [桧原神社].  It is a Miwa Torii[三輪鳥居].
I felt that here is very sacred place. Hibara Jinja is one of  Omiwa Jinja’s  sesshas [摂社].

[Access]  30 minutes walk from Miwa Station on the JR Line. Or, 30 minutes walk from Miwamyojin Sando-guchi bus stop, which can be reached using the bus that departs from Sakurai Station on the JR or Kintetsu Line.

[Address] Miwa-aza Hibara, Sakurai-shi, NARA 633-0001

　

Shooting date: July 14 2008

]]> http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/08/15_172090.php/feed Katchaman’s Amazing JAPAN guide at Nara Power Spot (Sacred Place) “Hibara Jinja Shrine [桧原神社]” http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/31_101480.php http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/31_101480.php#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:53:50 +0000 katchaman http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/31_101480.php  There is a amazing Torii(Gate) in Hibara Jinja [桧原神社].  It is a Miwa Torii[三輪鳥居].
Miwa torii[三輪鳥居] is also called mitsutorii[三鳥居] or sankou torii[三光鳥居]. An entrance gate to a Shinto shrine comprised of three sections. The center section is a typical *myoujin torii[明神鳥居] except the pillars have no inward incline *uchikorobi[内転]. A smaller gate called wakitorii[脇鳥居] is attached on each side (also called ekidorii[掖鳥居]or sodetorii[袖鳥居]). A board door hung with revolving pole hinges *itakarado[板唐戸] encloses the central section.

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[Access]  30 minutes walk from Miwa Station on the JR Line. Or, 30 minutes walk from Miwamyojin Sando-guchi bus stop, which can be reached using the bus that departs from Sakurai Station on the JR or Kintetsu Line.

[Address] Miwa-aza Hibara, Sakurai-shi, NARA 633-0001

]]> http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/31_101480.php/feed Katchaman’s Amazing JAPAN guide at Nara Power Spot (Sacred Place) “Genpian [玄賓庵（げんぴあん）]” http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/31_101482.php http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/31_101482.php#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:09:40 +0000 katchaman http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/31_101482.php It is said that Genpi(Buddhist monk) had been in the Heian Period here.
Fudo myoo is enshrined here. Fudo is the Buddhist divinity of wisdom and fire. He is the principal deity of the Myō-ō, or great kings. Fudo is often called upon for protection during dangerous times.

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Genpian [玄賓庵（げんぴあん）]

[Address] Chihara 377, Sakurai-shi, NARA
[Tel] 0744-42-6447
[Access]  20 minutes walk from Miwa Station on the JR Line. Or, 20 minutes walk from Miwamyojin Sando-guchi bus stop, which can be reached using the bus that departs from Sakurai Station on the JR or Kintetsu Line.

]]> http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/31_101482.php/feed Katchaman’s Amazing JAPAN guide at Nara Power Spot (Sacred Place) “Yamanobe No Michi [山之辺の道]” http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/30_161481.php http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/30_161481.php#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:44:22 +0000 katchaman http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/30_161481.php Yamanobe No Michi [山之辺の道] is Japan’s Oldest Road! According to the Source of “The Tenri municipal government”, there are beautiful mountains ranging east of the Nara Basin. At the bottom of them lies an ancient road from Heijo (Nara city) through Isonokamifuru to Miwa and Kanaya. This road is the oldest road on record in Japan, called “Yamanobe no Michi.”
The road is dotted with many shrines, temples and tomb mounds connected with historic or legendary events which appear in Kojiki (a collection of legendary stories of old Japan), Nihon Shoki (the oldest official history of Japan) and Manyoshu (the earliest extant collection of Japanese poetry). Its vicinity is full of a mythical atmosphere so that visitors may feel as if they were time travelers to the distant past.
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Yamanobe No Michi [山之辺の道]
Beginning at Isonokami Shrine near Tenri, the Yamanobe-no-Michi is the oldest road on record in Japan, following the hills from north to south as far as Miwa.

[Access] Get off at JR or Kintetsu Sakurai Station, or JR or Kintetsu Tenri Station

]]> http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/30_161481.php/feed Katchaman’s Amazing JAPAN guide at Nara Power Spot (Sacred Place) “Omiwa Jinja Shrine[大神神社　三輪山]” http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/30_141486.php http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/30_141486.php#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:16:43 +0000 katchaman http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/30_141486.php  As the whole of Mount Miwa, which stands directly behind the shrine, is the object of worship, the shrine has no main hall, the place where a deity is usually enshrined. The outer shrine was reconstructed in the Edo Period by Tokugawa Ietsuna.
Omononushi-no-kami, who is enshrined at this Mount Miwa the object mountain of worship, is widely known by the divine name Okuninushi-no-mikoto (or so called Daikokusama) as the deity of cultivation, and is fully called Yamato-no-Omononushi-kushi-mika-tama-no-mikoto.　According to the classics, he is the guardian deity of the human life, and in the age of the gods, cooperating with Sukunahikona-no-mikoto, cultivated the land and developed every industry such as agriculture, industry and commerce, and contrived to augment every social welfare such as curing disease, charming, brewing, medicine manufacturing, and marriage, etc. 　Afterwaed, according to his own will, he stayed his soul (Saki-mitama and Kushimitama) at the said Mount Miwa (Mimoro-no-Kamunabi) in eternity.　Since then, the whole Mount Miwa has been worshipped as the object mountain (Shintai-zan) as it was. 　As the result, there is no main shrine even today, and the ancient form of worshipping has been handed down as it was.

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Omiwa Jinja Shrine [大神神社　三輪山]
[Address]  633-8538 Omiwa-Jinja, Miwa, Sakurai-shi
[TEL]  0744-42-6633 
[Access] Ten minutes walk from Miwa Station on the JR Line. Or, ten minutes walk from Miwamyojin Sando-guchi bus stop, which can be reached using the bus that departs from Sakurai Station on the JR or Kintetsu Line.
 

]]> http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/30_141486.php/feed Katchaman’s Amazing JAPAN guide at Nara Power Spot (Sacred Place) “Sacred Sunset like a white dragon in near Omiwa Jinja[大神神社　三輪山　白い龍・巳のような雲と夕日]” http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/29_221487.php http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/29_221487.php#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:04:51 +0000 katchaman http://www.japan-hopper.com/2008/03/29_221487.php  I saw the sacred sunset like a white dragon in the place near the Omiwa jinja on February, 2008.  It is very amazing!

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