A Walk Around Kyushu
Day 75, Th March 27th, 2014
Chikuzenmaebaru to Imajuku, Part 2
My route across the wide, apartment valley volition zigzag every bit I desire to see every bit many of the shrines scattered betwixt the rice paddies every bit I can. None of them are major shrines, only pocket-size local shrines, together with the chances are that most volition accept zilch odd inwards them, but every similar a shot together with so I discovery a shrine amongst something interesting: a mask, an odd komainu, a tidbit of local history, together with so on, that I discovery it worthwhile visiting every shrine I can.
There seems to live on to a greater extent than shrines than park inwards this broad valley, perchance related to the fact that this was i of the starting fourth dimension areas settled past times the immigrant Japanese together with was a powerful kingdom inwards ancient times earlier the creation of the province "Japan."
I halt inwards at several shrines, pleasant enough, but zilch noteworthy. I likewise top numerous cherry trees inwards total bloom. Coming into the hamlet of Ito I halt inwards at a Sumiyoshi Shrine.
Right adjacent door is a massive, nigh fifty meters square, steel frame suspended off the Earth past times steel together with granite pillars. Growing all over the frame is a vine which I am guessing is wisteria, though this early on inwards the twelvemonth at that topographic point is no sign of foliage or flower.
Surrounding the expanse are lines of Buddhist statues. Now I caput downward the middle of the valley together with inwards the adjacent short town spy some other shrine. I accept gotten quite practiced at seeing where shrines are at a distance. They volition oft live on ready inwards a grove of trees that are much taller, thence older, than what is surrounding them. This shrine is called Sazare Ishi Shrine, which way "pebble rock." Sazareishi is a "conglomerate" - a sedimentary stone that cements pebbles together past times pressure. It is most famously known inwards Nihon inwards a business from Kimigayo, the national anthem:
May your reign
Continue for a thousand, viii 1000 generations,
Until the pebbles
Grow into boulders
Lush amongst moss
I've seen quite a few at other shrines unopen to the country, normally encircled past times a shimenawa, but I expect unopen to but cannot discovery the stone. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few kilometers farther on, inwards the middle of the valley, I come upwards to the house I accept been aiming for, the Ito Historical Museum, a 4 or v story edifice quite out of house inwards this expanse of farms together with paddies.
In ancient Japan, bronze mirrors were symbols of power. Probably the most good known illustration are the 100 mirrors given to the legendary Queen Himiko past times the Chinese Emperor. Obviously the to a greater extent than mirrors yous possessed, the to a greater extent than of import yous were.
The Ito Historical Museum exhibits artifacts dug upwards from the grave of the local "king" Hirabaru. It included the biggest mirror always flora inwards Japan, together with twoscore other mirrors, the largest expose always discovered inwards a unmarried gravesite until a bigger hoard flora a few years agone close Nara.
Its a fairly "dry" museum but I'm glad to accept visited. On downward the valley.... to a greater extent than cherry blossoms... to a greater extent than shrines.... together with so I accomplish the shore of Imazu Bay. Land reclamation has pushed the solid reason out into what was i time H2O together with this department of the bay is almost enclosed similar a lagoon.
The adjacent temple, expose 83, Seigan-ji, lies at the base of operations of a loma on the other side. As I larn closer its non difficult to run across the temple every bit the grounds accept ample cherry trees inwards total bloom. The temple is an uninspiring, concrete building, but steps Pb upwards to a shrine together with so on upwards to some other shrine together with a Bishamon Hall on summit of the hill.
Neither construction has anything of interest, but the views made the climb worth while, across the H2O to Nokonoshima Island together with Shika Island inwards i direction together with westward towards the peninsula inwards the other. Back downward I caput towards the twain that crosses the narrow entrance to the bay, stopping inwards at a shrine along the way.
From the twain I tin give notice run across the distant skyline of Fukuoka amongst the distinctive profile of Fukuoka Tower clearly visible. Heading towards Imajuku Station I top a most curious roadside shrine that is sure as shooting non Japanese. The primary statue is a big, fat, Frog God of some kind, together with flanking it are ii guardian statues that are extremely grotesque. Behind, a long, curved pole has some form of decorations hanging from it. I am guessing it is Indonesian or Balinese, though I accept never been to those places. I cannot imagine why it is here. At Imajuku I choose handgrip of a prepare into Hakata together with my hotel. I had hoped to larn all the way inwards on pes but the twenty-four hours only didn't accept plenty hours.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 75 Part I
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 76
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Day 75, Th March 27th, 2014
Chikuzenmaebaru to Imajuku, Part 2
My route across the wide, apartment valley volition zigzag every bit I desire to see every bit many of the shrines scattered betwixt the rice paddies every bit I can. None of them are major shrines, only pocket-size local shrines, together with the chances are that most volition accept zilch odd inwards them, but every similar a shot together with so I discovery a shrine amongst something interesting: a mask, an odd komainu, a tidbit of local history, together with so on, that I discovery it worthwhile visiting every shrine I can.
There seems to live on to a greater extent than shrines than park inwards this broad valley, perchance related to the fact that this was i of the starting fourth dimension areas settled past times the immigrant Japanese together with was a powerful kingdom inwards ancient times earlier the creation of the province "Japan."
I halt inwards at several shrines, pleasant enough, but zilch noteworthy. I likewise top numerous cherry trees inwards total bloom. Coming into the hamlet of Ito I halt inwards at a Sumiyoshi Shrine.
Right adjacent door is a massive, nigh fifty meters square, steel frame suspended off the Earth past times steel together with granite pillars. Growing all over the frame is a vine which I am guessing is wisteria, though this early on inwards the twelvemonth at that topographic point is no sign of foliage or flower.
Surrounding the expanse are lines of Buddhist statues. Now I caput downward the middle of the valley together with inwards the adjacent short town spy some other shrine. I accept gotten quite practiced at seeing where shrines are at a distance. They volition oft live on ready inwards a grove of trees that are much taller, thence older, than what is surrounding them. This shrine is called Sazare Ishi Shrine, which way "pebble rock." Sazareishi is a "conglomerate" - a sedimentary stone that cements pebbles together past times pressure. It is most famously known inwards Nihon inwards a business from Kimigayo, the national anthem:
May your reign
Continue for a thousand, viii 1000 generations,
Until the pebbles
Grow into boulders
Lush amongst moss
I've seen quite a few at other shrines unopen to the country, normally encircled past times a shimenawa, but I expect unopen to but cannot discovery the stone. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few kilometers farther on, inwards the middle of the valley, I come upwards to the house I accept been aiming for, the Ito Historical Museum, a 4 or v story edifice quite out of house inwards this expanse of farms together with paddies.
In ancient Japan, bronze mirrors were symbols of power. Probably the most good known illustration are the 100 mirrors given to the legendary Queen Himiko past times the Chinese Emperor. Obviously the to a greater extent than mirrors yous possessed, the to a greater extent than of import yous were.
The Ito Historical Museum exhibits artifacts dug upwards from the grave of the local "king" Hirabaru. It included the biggest mirror always flora inwards Japan, together with twoscore other mirrors, the largest expose always discovered inwards a unmarried gravesite until a bigger hoard flora a few years agone close Nara.
Its a fairly "dry" museum but I'm glad to accept visited. On downward the valley.... to a greater extent than cherry blossoms... to a greater extent than shrines.... together with so I accomplish the shore of Imazu Bay. Land reclamation has pushed the solid reason out into what was i time H2O together with this department of the bay is almost enclosed similar a lagoon.
The adjacent temple, expose 83, Seigan-ji, lies at the base of operations of a loma on the other side. As I larn closer its non difficult to run across the temple every bit the grounds accept ample cherry trees inwards total bloom. The temple is an uninspiring, concrete building, but steps Pb upwards to a shrine together with so on upwards to some other shrine together with a Bishamon Hall on summit of the hill.
Neither construction has anything of interest, but the views made the climb worth while, across the H2O to Nokonoshima Island together with Shika Island inwards i direction together with westward towards the peninsula inwards the other. Back downward I caput towards the twain that crosses the narrow entrance to the bay, stopping inwards at a shrine along the way.
From the twain I tin give notice run across the distant skyline of Fukuoka amongst the distinctive profile of Fukuoka Tower clearly visible. Heading towards Imajuku Station I top a most curious roadside shrine that is sure as shooting non Japanese. The primary statue is a big, fat, Frog God of some kind, together with flanking it are ii guardian statues that are extremely grotesque. Behind, a long, curved pole has some form of decorations hanging from it. I am guessing it is Indonesian or Balinese, though I accept never been to those places. I cannot imagine why it is here. At Imajuku I choose handgrip of a prepare into Hakata together with my hotel. I had hoped to larn all the way inwards on pes but the twenty-four hours only didn't accept plenty hours.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 75 Part I
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 76
© JapanVisitor.com Sumber https://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/