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Rod Lucas

Divine Favours - 3

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

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Divine Favours 2

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...

Rod Lucas

Divine Favours

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...

Rod Lucas

Next Shrine Visit..

Going to Chichibu today, mainly to visit Mitsumine Jinja, a shrine where wolves are worshipped.

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Next Shrine Visit Note...

...will be Ne Jinja in Yokohama's Naka-ku. There are two other shrines by this name in Yokohaha, one in Minami-ku, one in Hodogaya-ku....

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Next Shrine Visit Note...

...will be Iseyama Kotaijingu in Yokohama-shi, Nishi-ku. It is of historical interest mainly because of the way political developments in...

Rod Lucas

Farewell "Ex-post facto"

Since the confirmaion of the first Covid-19 virus infection in Japan on January 16, 2020, I have been self-isolating to a greater or...