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]”

August 15, 2008 - 5:46 pm by katchaman in Culture  

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 [...]

Katchaman’s Amazing JAPAN guide at Nara Power Spot (Sacred Place) “Hibara Jinja Shrine [桧原神社]”

March 31, 2008 - 10:53 am by katchaman in Others  

 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 [...]

Katchaman’s Amazing JAPAN guide at Nara Power Spot (Sacred Place) “Omiwa Jinja Shrine[大神神社　三輪山]”

March 30, 2008 - 2:16 pm by katchaman in Others, Travel  

 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, [...]

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]”

March 29, 2008 - 10:04 pm by katchaman in Others  

 I saw the sacred sunset like a white dragon in the place near the Omiwa jinja on February, 2008.  It is very [...]