09/01/2014

Uji Jinja

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Uji Jinja 宇治神社

Uji Imazaikecho, Ise-city, Mie - 三重県伊勢市宇治今在家町172


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Uji Jinja is a guardian shrine for the residents in the local neighborhood of Uji and also famous as the guardian shrine of leg health.
The legend for strong leg health originated because many of the ancient pilgrims to Ise City prayed there for healthy and strong legs for their journeys back home.
The local folklore was further aided after Ise City’s own Mizuki Noguchi 野口みずき became the gold medal marathon winner in the 2004 Athens Olympics. The legend says that visitors can get stronger legs if they touch a special rock within the shrine.
- source : www.ise-kanko.jp/english


. Ise Grand Shrine (伊勢神宮, Ise Jingu, Ise Jingū) .


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Ise (伊勢市, Ise-shi), formerly called Ujiyamada (宇治山田), is a city located on the eastern tip of Kii Peninsula, in central Mie Prefecture.
Ise is home to Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shintō Shrine in Japan. . .
The village around the Inner Shrine was named Uji and the village around the Outer Shrine was named Yamada.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !]

Walking up the stone steps next to the shrine office there is this :


ashigamisan 足神さん Ashi no Kamisama
Deity for Strong Legs


The nadeishi, nade-ishi 撫石 is a stone to stroke with the wish for your own legs to become strong. Strike the stone first, then the part of your body that aches.

. Deities for Strong Legs - 足の神様 仏様 .

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source : blogs.yahoo.co.jp/bo_village
Ashigami Jinja 足神神社  Shrine for the Deity of Legs

Umashi Ashikabi Hikoji no Kami 宇麻志阿斯訶備比古遅神
ウマシアシカビヒコヂ - 足神さん Ashigami San

Jinsei no ashidori ga yoku naru 人生の足取りが良くなる
May the strides of your life become easy.


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Umashiashikabihikoji - Umashi ashikabi hikoji no kami
A kami that appeared in the process of formation of heaven and earth. Acording to Kojiki and an "alternate writing" quoted in the Nihongi, when the land was first formed, it was uncongealed like floating oil, and drifted about like a jellyfish. From within this substance an object appeared and sprouted like a reed, becoming the kami Umashiashikabihikoji.

Kojiki states that this kami was the fourth of the five separate heavenly kami (kotoamatsukami) that were produced alone (hitorigami) and then hid themselves away (i.e., died). The second and third "alternate writings" describing this episode in Nihongi, however, state that Umashiashikabihikoji was the first kami to come into being, while the sixth account describes it as the second kami produced.
This kami was not known as the ancestor of any clans.
- source : kokugakuin, Mori Mizue

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大山祇神 Ooyamatsuminomikoto - main deity  

宇迦之御魂神 (ウカノミタマノカミ)
玉移良比賣神 (タマイラヒメノカミ)
御裳須曽姫神 (ミモスソヒメノカミ)
豊玉比賣神 (トヨタマヒメノカミ)
素戔嗚尊 (スサノオノミコト)
天兒屋根命 (アメノコヤネノミコト)
速秋津日子神 (ハヤアキツヒコノカミ)
速秋津比女神 (ハヤアキツヒメノカミ)
新川比賣神 (ニイカワヒメノカミ)
火産霊神 (ホムスビノカミ)
水波賣神 (ミズハノメノカミ)
神名不詳一座
応神天皇 (オウジンテンノウ)
天見通命 (アメノミトオシノミコト)
彌武彦神 (ヤタケヒコノカミ)

大職冠鎌足神霊 (タイショクカンカマタリシンレイ)Taishokukan Kamatari Shinrei / 藤原鎌足 Fujiwara no Kamatari
和気清麿神霊 (ワケノキヨマロシンレイ)Wake no Kiyomaro Shinrei
菅原道真神霊 (スガワラノミチザネシンレイ)Sugawara no Michizane Shinrei
楠正成神霊 (クスノキマサシゲシンレイ)Kusunoki Masashige Shinrei
羽倉東麿神霊 (ハクラアズママロシンレイ)Ukura Azuma Maro Shinrei
岡部真淵神霊 (オカベマブチシンレイ)Okabe Mabuchi Shinrei / 賀茂 真淵 Kamo no Mabuchi
本居宣長神霊 (モトオリノリナガシンレイ)Motoori Norinaga Shinrei
平田篤胤神霊 (ヒラタアツタネシンレイ)Hirata Atsutane Shinrei

. shinrei 神霊 / 心霊 spirit, Geist .


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waraji no ema  わらじの絵馬 votive tablet with straw sandals

waraji omamori わらじ守り(健脚)amulet for strong legs

. waraji 草鞋 わらじ straw sandals .
zoori, zôri 草履

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. Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja 神社) - Introduction .


. Ujigami Jinja 宇治上神社 Kyoto .
Uji near Kyoto is famous for the Uji Tea.

Nearby is another Uji Jinja 宇治神社, not to be mixed.

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守武祭、俳句大会 - 宇治神社 Great Haiku Meeting at Uji Shrine
平成24年9月15日 (2012)
- source : www.k4.dion.ne.jp/~kousei00

In memory of the great haikai poet
. Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 .
(1473 – 1549)

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