Lake Suwa is big and beautiful, so one may want to stay in a hotel with hot spring bath by the lake and visit Suwa Taisha. For those who’d like to see all four shrines of Suwa Taisha, I would reccommend to have a good local guide. As the day was bright and sunny, our journey was a happy one. But, my friends in Nagano kindly took me there and we could visit all four places in one day. Then, I saw very similar, huge shimenawa in Suwa-taisha of Nagano, and it was possible to go there. I wasn’t sure I would find all four places at once. I was fascinated by the shimenawa's size of Izumo Taisha in photos, but travelling there was far and impossible in my case. There are similar things between Izumo Taisha and Suwa Taisha, in particular, the huge Izumo-style “shimenawa” (sacred ropes) seen at the shrines. It often has fatal consequences for the men involved, who can be crushed by the sliding logs. These 16 tree trunks are associated with the Onbashira Festival held once every six years when these huge trees are felled and the logs transported to the shrine buildings.The 10-ton tree trunks are ridden down a hillside by the men participating in a ceremony. Įach of the four shrines of Suwa Taisha has four huge fir tree trunks acting as shrine markings. Instead, its objects of worship “go-shintai” are the mountain the shrine stands on and “divine trees” (shinboku) - at the Shimosha. Like others among Japan's oldest shrines, three of the four main shrines of Suwa Taisha do not have a “honden” or a building that enshrines a Kami (god). The Shimosha is situated on the northern side of the lake, in the town Shimosuwa. Kamisha is the place of the Maemiya and the Honmiya, which both mean “old shrine." Shimosha comprises the Harumiya or “spring shrine” (haru – spring in Japanese) and the Akimiya or “autumn shrine” (aki – autumn). The two shrines of the Kamisha are located on the south side of Lake Suwa, in the towns of Chino and Suwa. Siege (Ayako Kawasumi) Ruriko Ikusawa from Gate Keepers, Erina Pendleton from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and Saber from Fate/stay night. But there's lots more to explore around this area than just Suwa Shrine. You'll have to pay to enter this sacred place, which is situated in Nagasaki. Take a few reflective moments yourself, or simply observe others as they worship. The shrine consists of a four-building complex grouped into two sites: the Kamisha, or Upper Shrine, and the Shimosha, or Lower Shrine. Suwa Shrine is a sacred place where religious souls meet to pray. Suwa Taisha was considered the most important shrine in the Shinano area and was much patronized by samurai and their leaders including Tokugawa Ieyasu - the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Suwa Taisha has a very complicated history even for Japanese, so it’s almost impossible to understand it for a foreigner. Suwa Taisha is the head shrine of the Suwa network of shrines, composed of more than ten thousand individual shrines in Japan.
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