A Triangularly Composed Torii
Konoshima-ni-masu-amateru-mitama-jinja Shrine has a strange triangularly composed torii just west to its inner main shrine. A torii is usually a gateway at the entrance to a Shinto Shrine. I wonder where the triangularly composed torii (or toriis?) will lead us. If you enter one of those "three" toriis, you will just face a gatepost of the other "two" toriis. That is, the torii is (or the toriis are) a gate (or gates) which will lead to nowhere but to the center of the torii itself (or toriis themselves). And, at the center of the torii(s), there is a pile of stones. Is the pile of stones our goal, our destination?
posted by kakutaharuo | 12:15 AM
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Konoshima-ni-masu-amateru-mitama-jinja Shrine has a small Inari shrine with its gate radiating an eerie aura. Once you go through the gate, you will find a stone shrine, which is several yards below the triangularly composed torii. The stone shrine has really an eerie atmosphere.
Nobody seems to know what "Konoshima" means. Wherever "Konoshima" is, the shrine's name implies the shrine enshrines the spirit of the sun god who lives in "Konoshima," or the spirits of the sun gods who live in "Konoshima.
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