Yoshida shrine
The Yoshida Shrine ( Japanese 吉田 神社 , yoshida-jinja ) is a Shinto shrine in the easternmost part of the Sakyo-ku district of Kyoto , Japan . It lies at the foot of Mount Yoshida, part of the Higashiyama Mountains, and is surrounded by a deep forest. It was founded in the Heian period in 859 by the Fujiwara family.
history
According to the historical story Eiga Monogatari , Anshi , the wife of Murakami- tennō, was cremated and buried near the Yoshida shrine in 964.
In 1081, Yoshida Shrine was added to the list of 22 shrines .
In the second half of the 15th century, the priest and scholar Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-1511, from the old fortune teller family at the imperial court, the Yoshida or Urabe ) founded a special direction of Shinto, the Yoshida-Shinto, in the shrine . The Yoshida Shinto soon gained such strong influence in Japan that the Yoshida Shrine was granted the sole right by the Tenno to grant permits to exercise the Shinto priesthood for several centuries . Although these were not mandatory prerequisites for priestly activities in a Shinto shrine, they became popular for settling disputes over competence between religious experts within a shrine community.
particularities
The shrine itself has some architectural peculiarities: instead of a heath there is only a simple roof, but four hounds . For special spiritual exercises of the priests there is the gyōjishō-ya .
On the day after Setsubun , the Daigen-kyū (a massha ) begins the expulsion of Uji-kata-yagi-no-yamai-gami, the kami of all evil, including evil thoughts and intentions ( tsumi ), dirt, illness and accidents. However, he is also venerated in a honden , in front of whose entrance there is the "hill of misery" ( yaku-zuka ), which is connected to the honden by eight Shimenawa . During the expulsion, sacks of soy beans are thrown on this hill.
For the nearby University of Kyoto , priests of the shrine performed the traditional Shinto rites to lay the foundation stone. The shrine is also famous for its hamaya .
Web links
- Official Website - Japanese
- Information page of the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies ( Memento of October 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) - English
Coordinates: 35 ° 1 '31.3 " N , 135 ° 47' 4.7" E