Friday, January 15, 2010

Saijo-ji at Mt. Daiyu in Kanagawa, Japan

Saijou-temple is not far from my home and I usually visit there in New Year. This temple is quite an old and is going to have 600th anniversary in this year.


Way to the gate of temple are covered by cider tree.
We burn incense at the entrance and get smoke to the body. It'll get away a bad luck.
Here is the first building.
Main building to pray for us.
Tengu (= long-nosed goblin) is guarding this temple. So we can see some of the related goods of Tengu. There are variety of geta (=clogs) on the ground. It's so amazing how big clogs are. One of them, I could sleep on the top of the clogs.

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