I have spent the last two days in Kyoto, visiting a total of nine shrines. Seven of them are off the beaten track and relatively unknown. The two relatively well-known ones are Kenkin Jinja in Kita-ku and Gotonomiya Jinja in Fushimi-ku: neither of them were overrun by sightseers though. The visitors were mostly individuals and small groups of Japanese. Of the seven relatively unknown ones, only one, Issai Jinja in Fushimi-ku, was not interesting: some of the others were very

I have substantially upgraded my “How Many Kami in Japan?” page. While the upgrade is still far from complete, the page is already much...

I have now identified 65 divine favours. A large number of them are asking for family-related happiness: family well-being, family...

It turns out that I have restarted this blog with a mistake. I said that 御利益 is read as “gorieki”: in fact, and thank you to my good...

It’s some since I added anything to this blog, time to start again. I have started listing the divine favours (御利益, gorieki) along with...