Monday, March 08, 2010

[jules' pics] 3/07/2010 07:39:00 PM


bear shrine thing, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.

I don't quite know how I have managed to visit Zuisenji for 8 years and never before notice the Mrs Tiggywinkle shrine.

[for the pedants: I'm fairly sure it is supposed to be a bear not a hedgehog... Having said that, if it were Mrs Tiggywinkle it would only mean that there was more than one shrine in Kamakura sporting anime characters...
for the extra very pedants: Zuisenji is a temple (Buddhism) not a shrine (Shinto), but as Buddhism likes to blend in with local religions, it is all a bit mixed up, and some temples contain shrine-like things]



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4 comments:

  1. William M. Connolley8/3/10 11:36 am

    I thought garden gnomes were too kitsch for those elegant Japanese.

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  2. David B. Benson8/3/10 10:57 pm

    Belette --- From my brief experiences in Japan, there are the elegant Japanese, the salarymen Japanese and the kitsch Japanese. Same in Germany.

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  3. James Annan9/3/10 1:15 pm

    Didn't see many kitsch Japanese last time I was in Germany :-)

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  4. David B. Benson9/3/10 8:36 pm

    James Annan --- Bet you didn't go to Bavaria. :-)

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