August 15, 2008 - 5:15 pm by katchaman in Culture, Travel
I can recommend Daibenzaitensha as a sacred place in Japan.
Tenkawa-dai-benzaiten-sha is located in the center of Japan’s spiritual heartland, the Kii Mountain range, this shrine is filled with sacred energy emanating from the dense forest on the holy mountain Omine-san with No admittance to woman. Since the shrine’s principal object of worship, sheltered at the [...]
March 19, 2008 - 3:30 pm by katchaman in Others
”Daranisuke(だらにすけ）” of Ominesan is the one of NARA’s medicine, famous for its Shugendo. As medicine those days used to be mainly natural substances, people tried to import medical plant seedlings from China, and devoted for research and plant of medical plant to localize. Under the circumstances, some medical plant gardens were constructed in Nara, so [...]
- 3:09 pm by katchaman in Others
Minshuku are Japanese style bed and breakfasts. I found the good Minshuku in Tenkawa village. It is named “AOBA [民宿 あおば]”. The managers(elderly couple) at AOBA are freindly and very kind.
[Address] Ooaza Kitakohara 24, Tenkawa mura, Yoshino gun, Nara 638-0313
[Tel] 0747-63-0478
[Price] 8400 – yen/day
March 17, 2008 - 9:09 pm by katchaman in Others
This ia a sacred tree of Tenkawa-dai-benzaiten-sha” [天河大辨財天社] .
- 8:59 pm by katchaman in Others
I went to “Tenkawa shrine”, namely “Tenkawa-dai-benzaiten-sha” [天河大辨財天社] on February, [...]
