Fish in the Lake
The May 24th issue of Jinja Shinpō contained a very thought-provoking article. Futarasan Jinja in Nikkō has just erected a monument near its middle jinja to celebrate the actions of one of its late nineteenth century chief priests. Nikkō is a mountainous area in Tochigi Prefecture, most famous for Nikkō Tōshōgū, a World Heritage site and the main jinja enshrining Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Futarasan Jinja is, however, about a thousand years older, and also part of the World Heritage Site. It honours one of the… Read More »Fish in the Lake