Shinto shrines

>>16665174
they're tourist attractions

They play bingo in there.

>>16665174
They're usually enshrining a local deity of some sort (maybe an old tree spirit or smth). The space in the picture shows a box before which you pray to the aforementioned deity and offer some change (maybe also make a wish). To get a more in depth answer, you should research a bit on Shinto itself.

Donates.

>>16665174
chinnggg
klonk klonk
clap clap

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cute mikos live there

They're built ontop hidden missile silos. When the right time comes, the Empire of the Sun will Rise once more.

>>16665293
Accurate

>>16665174
>>>/trv/

>>16665174
They're tourist attractions, cultural symbols, community centers (mostly in small towns), and locations for desperate students to go wish for success in exams and stuff.

They aren't really that different from churches. I mean, we laugh at the dick worship festival but really, Europe has just as much dick worship as Japan.

>>16665331
can i fuck cute mikos?

>>16665539
Not quite, many of them take a vow of chastity while they are in service to their Gods. That being said it's not a lifetime commitment.

>>16665174
Sanae Kochiya.

>>16665174
>Can somebody explain what these shrines are all about?
They house the souls of all Japanese and all Nazis killed in WWII.
One day, all these souls, led by Hitler's spirit and the power of the Tenno, will merge into a new entity - a super intelligence known as the God Emperor of Mankind.
The God Emperor of Mankind will then conquer the universe and create a dictatorship which will be built on fascism, anime and foot fetishism. This country will be the Fourth Reich, the Kingdom of God.
Hitler started the Second World War and lost it on purpose so that enough souls could be amassed and stored in a short time. When his work was done, he committed suicide to enter a shrine. MacArthur was aware of that and he tried to destroy as many shrines as possible and searched for it when he was in Japan, but he was fired by the US government after Nazi agents gained control of it (operation paperclip).

>>16666967
>foot fetishism.
Would literally torch every shrine to the ground if there was even a vague chance of that happening

>>16666967
>foot fetish
I dislike hitler now

>>16666967
>per intelligence known as the God Emperor of >footfags

I would join Antifa if this were the case

>>16666967

Is this the plot for the next Persona?

>>16665174
Mere nature worship

>>16665174
Shinto is a meme.

>>16665174
whatever you do, don't drink the water

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>>16685536

>>16665174
this thread actually made me remind a lot of the time I spent in Kyoto,
there were shrines like these in the most hidden places
if the thread is alive till tomorrow I can post them, and perhaps someone with actual knowledge can talk about shinto

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Sumo-jinja(shrine) enshrining Nomi no Sukune who is believed to be the Soshin (ancestor honored as god) of sumo is holy place among people concerned in the sumo.

>>16666967
(((footfags)))

Prostitution

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Tsurugaoka Hachimangū

>>16665174
The place that make a wish for adult and play for Children.

bump... wait on a bit more

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>>16666967

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okay time for some pic dumping, if anyone still around....
this not really a temple but its part of that old capital palace,
I just fucking love its architecture

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so here is an example of the hidden shrines I've talked about
this is just plain regular shopping gallery, looks like a shinto related store

and the "shrine" inside, actually look so convoluted like a token something store

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>>16692353
fucking hell

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but if you follow this creepy ass corridor

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you will find this weird historical garden

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and this big ass shrine hidden inside

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and further down the same gallery among the shops

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what looks like a graveyard among the unseeingly normal buildings

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I think these were all over the same shopping gallery

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so whats up with nazi Buddha?

>>16692410
Swastika is a Buddhist symbol

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finally to finish off, not a temple but a somewhat traditional japanese neighborhood off hidden behind this portal

>>16692444
yes I'm aware, what does it mean though?

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pretty big yard

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I fucking love traditional jap architecture

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people actually live in these

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bells

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and off hidden in the corner like a garden

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their own humble shrine
pretty sure this must be like a traditional jap family plot just survived the eons

>>16687160
don't they also have a sumo ring located on the premises, or am I mistaken?

>>16692408
http://kyoto.wakasa.jp/detail/25/479/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshitigarbha

>>16692637
Difficult to answer specifically as it's used by a great deal of cultures. Means different things to many different groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

>>16692637
The swastika is an auspicious symbol in Indo-Aryan cultures, that is, the Asian Indo-Europeans: Indians, Persians, Afghans, etc. In India particularly, it is even today a very common motif in all sorts of art, especially religious, and is often drawn on things for luck. Buddhism grew out of an Hindu context, and so retains, even in its various disparate forms, similar cosmology and symbolism to the particular form of ancient Hinduism that the Buddha practiced. This includes not only motifs such as the swastika, but also characteristics of various dieties and other characters reinterpreted in the native context, such as the way many kami have parallels with Buddhist, and subsequently Hindu characters. It's sort of like how Caesar described Germanic and Celtic gods not in their own context, but through comparisons with similar Greco-Roman gods.

Basically, Buddha's folks used to draw swastikas on stuff for good luck, and the Japs are Buddhists so they do it too, but with less religious connotations.

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>>16666967
>foot fetishism
DOWN WITH THE FALSE GODS

would anyone be interested in more pics?

>>16697396
yes. i save every single one of them!

I wish they would make a /weeb/ board for all these people who belong on /p/ to post their boring pictures of shit in.

>>16697494
This is the weeb board.
>>16697396
Post more.

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>plok
>>16697472
alright, so here is the thing, most of the above was near the end of my trip when I just took on exploring by myself, as it happens lots of other good pictures have me and other people in them, should I erase face or not?

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a stroll through that enormous park in the middle of Kyoto, not sure but I think was the neighborhood housing the old imperial family

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it was pretty close to where I stayed, and used to take a stroll there every once in a while, and this place always filled me with curiosity

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of course they open up every week or so

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roofs

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portals

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roof and portal

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the comfiest of houses

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here is something that really caught my attention

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off my by the back of the houses

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complete with ponds

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the most amazing garden

>>16698996
What if someone recognizes you? You don't want anyone to know that you browse /jp/, do you?

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>>16699259
1- likelyhood of being recognized is actually pretty low
2- in any way it would also mean that they browse /jp/ as well
3- I actually try to introduce people into 4chan

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anyway, kyoto is such a gorgeous place

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When you take a stroll around the center of Tokyo Special Ward (Chiyoda and Chuo Wards and their surrounding areas),
you would notice that there are unexpectedly many small Shinto shrines on intervals and roofs of the buildings.

It is JISHU-JInha.
It is said that God of love.
Popular with students.
Always there are many teens.

>>16700304
>JISHU
自称？

>>16700354
じ　しゅ　じ　ん　じゃ

>>16692683
This is standard size and design of shinto shrine and good looking

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>>16700278
The Shinto shrines stand on the roof of some buildings were ever stood on the ground in right under before the building stood.

Good thread

>>16692410
Have you ever even seen a nazi swastika, my son? Because that ain't one.

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Sakato Shrine in Sodegaura City, Chiba prefecture, it is said that which used to have a custom of human sacrifice.

>>16713955
Tell me more.

>>16665174
Me all of those Shrines are actually dedicated to me.

>>16692367
How is it historical?

>>16720078
Please translate this.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/835792131620904961

>>16720238
this house was clearly old and traditional styled, everything part of the same shrine as the other pictures in the timeline
in the olden days they had lots like that with big yards, thus, this have be one of these old buildings that survived...

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Kagura played at each shrine to dedicate to a god.