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Y2 : 365 - Day 116.

1/25/2012

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Christmas Vacation, Japanese Edition: Kyoto


Fushimi Inari Taisha.
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Arrived at the Fushimi Inari Taisha. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines.
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Foxes, regarded as the messengers, are often found in Inari shrines. One attribute is a key (for the rice granary) in their mouths.
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You could buy a tori gate (1,000 yen = around $13) and write a prayer on it. These wooden plaques are called ema, each shinto shrine was an interesting plaque specific to that shrine.
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In early Japan, Inari was seen as the patron of business, each of the Torii is donated by a Japanese business.
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The start of our 4km hike.
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Shrines along the way.
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They just keep going and going and going.
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I was beat!
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Okay enough with the break, time to climb a mountain.
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View from one of the rest stops, there were restaurants and little stores on our hike.
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Stunning!
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We got a little lost and ventured out of the park through a ravine, oops! At least the bamboo was nice to look at.
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