After a thousand shrine gates...
After a thousand Shrine gates
A real world does exist
In a fest inside the tunnel
they are just being deceived
By guarding foxes
Glancing at the scene
I kept waling further inside...
千本鳥居のその後に
本当の世界がある
トンネルの中の饗宴
彼ら狐につままれているだけだ
そんな光景を横目に
私はさらに奥へと歩みを進めた…
Christmas finished, and now less than a week for a New Year. I've been busy lately to visit shrines and temples which I feel strong connections for End of Year seasonal greeting with gratitude. Though I often visit them for daily basis greeting, I constantly come up with an idea that I better visit also this one and that one here and there.
I might have visited 伏見稲荷大社 (Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine) relatively a lot this year. Since a special tourism campaign train ticket for Fushimi Kyoto area costs only 1000 yen including Osaka Metro one day pass, that must have encouraged me to go there for a walk in Mt. Inari more often than usual. I always pass through 千本鳥居 (Senbon Torii) ／a thousand shine gates without stopping which is so popular among tourists. Despite of the hustle and bustle of people there, the sanctuary is well maintained at good energy levels. I just wonder how much stronger the power of this shrine is becoming.
Every time I come here this place, I can't stop taking photos of this guardian fox. I just like this one so much. Looking me down from the podium, I always feel as if it was preaching me. However I can't stop feeling relieved from the severe gazing.
"Are you sure that you are well determined?"
As if I heard the message from the guarding fox.
クリスマスも終わり、今年も残すところ一週間を切った。一年の感謝を述べに神社仏閣への訪問が多くなる。結構、まめに行くべきところには挨拶に行ってはいるが、それでもここも、ここもと言う思いが湧いてくる。
I might have visited 伏見稲荷大社 (Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine) relatively a lot this year. Since a special tourism campaign train ticket for Fushimi Kyoto area costs only 1000 yen including Osaka Metro one day pass, that must have encouraged me to go there for a walk in Mt. Inari more often than usual. I always pass through 千本鳥居 (Senbon Torii) ／a thousand shine gates without stopping which is so popular among tourists. Despite of the hustle and bustle of people there, the sanctuary is well maintained at good energy levels. I just wonder how much stronger the power of this shrine is becoming.
Every time I come here this place, I can't stop taking photos of this guardian fox. I just like this one so much. Looking me down from the podium, I always feel as if it was preaching me. However I can't stop feeling relieved from the severe gazing.
"Are you sure that you are well determined?"
As if I heard the message from the guarding fox.
クリスマスも終わり、今年も残すところ一週間を切った。一年の感謝を述べに神社仏閣への訪問が多くなる。結構、まめに行くべきところには挨拶に行ってはいるが、それでもここも、ここもと言う思いが湧いてくる。
今年は伏見稲荷大社に比較的多く通ったのではないだろうか？伏見稲荷駅までの一日乗車券が１０００円だという事もあるが、稲荷山に登り一の峯の社で挨拶をする。下界の千本鳥居はいつも素通りだが、多くの外国人たちの饗宴でいつも賑やかだ。そんな喧騒にもかかわらず、この神社のご神気の清浄さを感じるのは、それだけこのお社の力が強くなったという事だろうか？
ここを訪ねる度に挨拶代わりにこの左の狛狐を撮る。とにかくこの子が好きなのだ。見上げる位置からいつも諭すような眼差し。そんな厳しい眼差しからなぜか安心感を感じずにはいられない。
”覚悟はあるか？”
私を見つめるその眼差しから、そんな思いを私の心は感じた。
ここを訪ねる度に挨拶代わりにこの左の狛狐を撮る。とにかくこの子が好きなのだ。見上げる位置からいつも諭すような眼差し。そんな厳しい眼差しからなぜか安心感を感じずにはいられない。
”覚悟はあるか？”
私を見つめるその眼差しから、そんな思いを私の心は感じた。
I overheard one couple's conversation while taking photos, and a man said, "He is like threatening us". I guess that this guarding fox looked so to him, and it is actually it did. They are speaking to one's heart directly, and we unconsciously feel it, and put it into words.
I will probably come here constantly for the next year as well. What I'm doing going out to here and there is no change as what it was before, but the range of distance must've shorten and reduced my physically burdens. And I'm doing it for fun. While having a peaceful daily life, I put more values on appreciating Divine's guidance which always shows me directions.
”威嚇してる！”とあるカップルの男性がこの狛狐を見上げて言った。彼にはそう見えたのだろう。いや、実際そうだったのかもしれない。彼らは魂に語り掛ける。それを私たちは無意識に感じ、言葉にしているだけだ。
来年もまたここには足蹴に通うことになる。あちらにこちらに、なんだかんだと以前と変わってはいなが、ただその振り幅が狭まった分だけ心身の負担が減った。穏やかな生活を送る中、日々進むべき方向へ導いてくれる神仏の存在に感謝の思いを大切にしようと思う。
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