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Torii Gates Nestled Within the Urbanscape・下谷神社の鳥居：町内の景観に溶け込む歴史の象徴

The large vermilion torii gate is the primary gate marking the main pathway (now an urban street) to a Shinto shrine.

The secondary torii, which is much smaller and made of either stone or concrete, stands at entrance of the shrine’s courtyard. Just beyond the torii is a yakuimon gate with a gabled roof. Behind this gate is the Shitaya Shrine——a local Shinto shrine with origins tracing back to the year 730, making it one of the oldest inari shrines in Tokyo.

Full write-up with links to sources for further reading (1-minute read): https://www.pix4japan.com/blog/20241210-torii

Location: Shitaya Shrine, Taito-ku, Tokyo Timestamp: 14:23・2024/12/10 Fujifilm X100V with 5% diffusion filter ISO 1000 for 1/250 sec. at ƒ/9 Provia/Standard film simulation

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Japanese Mythology & Deities - The gods of heaven and earth & All the deities –

The explanations of the Japanese gods are extremely numerous, complex and diverse, and difficult to understand, as is the case with the "eight million gods". The word "eight million" does not refer to a real number, but to a large number, and this is where we find the characteristics of the Japanese gods. Japan is not a monotheistic country, but a polytheistic country. Depending on how you look at it and how you count it, there are 321 gods in the Kojiki, one of the oldest texts in Japan. The Japanese gods are legally divided into two groups: Amatsukami (heavenly gods) and Kunitatsukami (earthly gods).

Amatsukami are the gods that reside in the high heavens, or the gods that descended from there, while Kunitatsukami is the gods that originally resided in the country of the reed field (the country on earth).

This section is divided into four parts: "Major Gods in the Chronicles," "Gods in the Sacred Mountains," "Historical People Who Became Gods," and "Gods in Our Lives”.

日本神話と神様たち

- 天神地祇 (あまつかみくにつかみ)、八百万の神 - 日本の「かみ」の説明は「八百万の神」と言われるように、数が極めて多く、しかも複雑多岐にわたり、難解である。 「八百万」とは実数を表すものではなく、数が多いことであり、ここに日本の神の特色が見られる。 日本は一神教ではなく、多神教の国なのである。見方や数え方により相違はあるが、日本最古のテキストの一つ「古事記」には三百二十一柱の神々が登場している。

日本の神は、法律的に見れば、天神 (あまつかみ)と地祇 (くにつかみ)に分けられる。天神は、高天原 (天上の国)にいる神、ないしはそこから天降ってきた神であり、これに対して地祇は、もともと葦原の中の国(地上の国)にいた神である。