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Kashii-gu 2025 Imperial Order Matsuri

Kashii-gu 香椎宮 Fukuoka (福岡市) July 26, 2025 (Reiwa 7) About Kashii-gu Kashii-gu is the shrine that enshrines Emperor Chuai (14th emperor of Japan) and Empress Jingu. It was originally built by Emperess Jingu after Emperor Chuai was killed during his journey west. She got revenge for his death and ruled as regent until her son became took the throne. She was later enshrined here after her death. This is one of the few shrines in the country where a member of the imperial family comes in person to perform imperial rites. It is famous as both a place to pray…

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Kashii-gu

Kashii-gu 香椎宮 Fukuoka (福岡市) July 26, 2025 (Reiwa 7) About Kashii-gu Kashii-gu is the shrine that enshrines Emperor Chuai (14th emperor of Japan) and Empress Jingu. It was originally built by Emperess Jingu after Emperor Chuai was killed during his journey west. She got revenge for his death and ruled as regent until her son became took the throne. She was later enshrined here after her death. This is one of the few shrines in the country where a member of the imperial family comes in person to perform imperial rites. It is famous as both a place to pray…

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Dazaifu Tenman-gu

goshuin for Daizafu Tenmangu

Dazaifu Tenman-gu 太宰府天満宮 Dazaifu (太宰府市) July 26, 2025 (Reiwa 7) About Dazaifu Tenman-gu Dazaifu Tenman-gu, as well as Kitano Tenman-gu in Kyoto, is one of the most important Tenman-gu shrines dedicated to the Heian Era scholar, Sugawara Michizane. After his death in Dazaifu, there were a series of natural disasters, prompting the the construction of the shrine on the site of Sugawara’s grave. One of the niftier characteristics of this shrine are the taiko bridges that you take across the large, heart-shaped pond to get to the main shrine. The street leading up the shrine is lined with shops and…

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Kobi Shrine – Rebuild Crowdfunding Limited

Kobi Shrine 古井神社 Minokamo (美濃加茂市) 2025 (Reiwa 7) About Kobi Shrine Kobi shrine is our neighborhood shrine. After only a year of living in our new house, it tragically burned down in an electrical fire in the middle of the night on October 1, 2024. Thankfully no one was hurt. They opened up a crowdfunding campaign on Ready For to rebuild the shrine. We surpassed the minimum 5,000,000円 goal. We got a total of 7,320,000円 for the shrine. The money for the original goal was the amount needed just to rebuild and the excess will be used to replace the…

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Hochigai Shrine

Hochigai Shrine 方違神社 Sakai (堺市) March 29, 2025 About Hochigai Shrine The name so this shrine is extremely unusual. 方違 usually involves avoiding traveling in unlucky directions or at unlucky times. Built on a location known as “Mikuniyama” or sometimes “Mikunioka”, it’s right on the border of three provinces of Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi but does not belong to any of them, thus has no direction. Pilgrims of the Kumado Kodo visited this shrine to ward off unlucky directions before heading south. Nowadays it’s often visited by people who are about to go in a new direction in life, such…

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