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| Shrine Onoterusaki jinja 小野照崎神社 Onoterusaki sama 小野照さま  The shrine is located in Daitoku ward, near Ueno park. 台東区下谷2-13-14 The deity in residence is the scholar Ono no Takamura 小野篁 (802 - 852). Ono no Terusaki came here often and wrote poetry about the peaceful landscape. The shrine was founded in 852, after his death, to honor him. Later in 1625, when the Kaneiji Temple in Ueno was founded, the shrine was relocated to this present site. The present building was established in 1866 at the end of the Edo period. It survived the Great Tokyo Earthquake in 1923 and also escaped destruction during the Second World War. Sugaware Michizane is also revered here, brought over from Ekooin 回向院 . Also in the compound: one of the three "Kooshin 庚申" wild deities of Japan. The main festival in on May 19 (or a Sunday nearby). . . . CLICK here for Photos ! The main amulet at this shrine:  hebi dorei 蛇土鈴 clay bell with serpent/snake It is a very simple form, but has eyes and a little red tongue. It makes a sound goron goron, to ward off snakes. It was sold before the summer came with water damage from flooding, to appease the deity of water, the snake. The shrine sold it only on two days, July 30 and June 1 only during the main festival.  This was the day of the great Fujizuka festival 富士塚祭り in the shrine, to celebrate the opening of the mountain climbing season of Mt. Fuji. The "Fuji Hill", a miniature of Mount Fuji, is about 7 meters high. To climb it would bring the same spiritual merit as climbing Mt. Fuji itself. The "Fuji Hill" of this shrine was constructed in 1828. Once every three years the festival is especially large and the mikoshi palanquin is carried around in the neighbourhood. Only when a new emperor succeeds or a crown prince is born will the festival be held in this year too. . Mount Fuji 富士山, Fuji-san, Fujiyama . :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Ono no Takamura (小野 篁) also known as Sangi no Takamura 参議篁, Sangi no Takamura (802 – February 3, 853) was an early Heian period scholar and poet.  Takamura is a descendant of Ono no Imoko who served as Kenzuishi, and his father was Ono no Minemori. He is the grandfather of Ono no Michikaze, one of the three famous calligraphers (三筆, sanpitsu). In 834 he was appointed to Kintōshi, but in 838 after a quarrel with the envoy, Fujiwara no Tsunetsugu, he gave up his professional duties pretending to be ill, and attracted the ire of retired Emperor Saga, who sent him to Oki Province. Within two years he regained the graces of the court and returned to the capital where he was promoted to Sangi. Takamura is the subject of a number of odd stories and legends. . . . people like Ono no Michikaze and Ono no Komachi are Takamura's direct descendants. © More in the WIKIPEDIA !  "Ono no Takamura, 100 Aspects of the Moon" Tsukioka Yoshitoshi The subtitle of the artwork shown is “Moon over Kyoshi”. Although the details haven’t come clear, a record says that Ono no Takamura who had made a poem criticizing the government was taken his title away and transferred to Kami-Oki as a punishment. Kyoshi is the mountain path located between Wakayama Pref. And Osaka Pref. In the artwork shown depicted could be Ono no Takamura sadly staring at the village below and the full moon above standing at the mountain path, being indulged in the nostalgia. source : Shukado - www.japanese-finearts.com ................................................................................. Agonashi Jizo 腮無( あごなし)地蔵 Jizo without a jaw ... and Ono no Takamura . :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: kigo for late spring Komachi Ki 小町忌 (こまちき) Komachi Memorial Day ..... Ono no Komachi Ki 小野小町忌（おののこまちき）  Ono no Komachi 小野 小町 c. 825 — c. 900. Waka Poetess and Famous Beauty a famous Japanese waka poet, one of the Rokkasen—the Six best Waka poets of the early Heian period. She was noted as a rare beauty; Komachi is a symbol of a beautiful woman in Japan. She also figures among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. The place of Komachi's birth and death is uncertain. According to one tradition, she was born in what is now Akita Prefecture, daughter of Yoshisada, "Lord of Dewa". Her social status is also uncertain. She may have been a low-ranking consort or a lady-in-waiting of an emperor, possibly Emperor Ninmyō (r. 833-850). As a poet, Komachi specialized in erotic love themes, expressed in complex poems. Most of her waka are about anxiety, solitude or passionate love. She is the only female poet referred to in the preface of the Kokin Wakashū, which describes her style as "containing naivety in old style but also delicacy". © More in the WIKIPEDIA ! kokoro no hana . Love Poems by Ono no Komachi . |
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