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Words-and-Pictures:
Chiryu Shrine
(as seen on October 1st, 2001,
on the Old Tokaido stage of the Aki
Meguri)
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Note: Chiryu, a
small
town in Aichi Prefecture, is Station #39 (from Tokyo) on the Old Tokaido
Highway. You can read about my visit to Chiryu in my Logbook.
You may also choose to start reading about my Tokaido
journey at the beginning, or start at the top of my Aki
Meguri pages.
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This well-designed
garden is the outer portion of the shrine. It boasts 60
kinds of iris, brought from the Meiji shrine in Tokyo in the
late '50s. |
| Here's the honden (main hall)
across a quaint "drum bridge." |
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This is a two-story pagoda, or tahoto.
The design is quite different from the three- and five-story
versions. Sometimes the bottom part is more domed, but
this one is fairly square. It's unusual to see these at
shrines, though; they're usually associated with Buddhist
temples. |
| The only people I saw at the shrine
were this guy and four of his friends struttin' around. I
don't know why, but there are often roosters running free in
shrines, even in the city. |
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