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Woman playing the konpira fune fune game with a geisha rules tap the cup with an open hand. when the cup is removed knock the table. If you mess up you lose

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Furin in konpira shrine, Nemuro Hokkaido Japan

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Japanese Mythology & Deities The world of the Divine Spirit, the Gods in our lives (4) Konpira〜God of safe voyages, fishing and prosperity

Konpira has its roots in India, where it is said to be a deification of the crocodile that lives in the Ganges River. Kompira is the Sanskrit transliteration of Kumbhira, which is also written as Kubhira.

Kubhira(Kumbhīra), the Buddhist god of water transport, is the demon god of the Vulture Peak in India and the first of the twelve divine generals of Yakushi Nyorai. As the Twelve Divine Generals, he is also known as Kubhira Taisho and Konpira Doji. The centre of the Konpira faith throughout Japan is the Konpira Shrine in Kotohira-cho, Kagawa Prefecture.

Hindu Mythology & Deities - Hindu deities (29)- Yakshas / Twelve Divine Generals In the Mahayana Buddhist sutras, the Twelve Divine General

日本神話と神様たち (4) 神霊の世界・暮らしの中の神々金比羅(こんぴら)さま〜航海安全、大漁祈願、商売繁盛の神

金比羅(こんぴら)のルーツはインドで、ガンジス川にすむ鰐(わに)を神格化したものといわれる。金比羅(こんぴら)はサンスクリット語のクンビーラ音訳で宮毘羅(くびら)とも書かれる。

宮毘羅（くびら）は、仏教の水運の神で、天竺(てんじく:インド)霊鷲山（りょうじゅせん)の鬼神で、薬師如来十二神将の筆頭である。十二神将としては十二神将としては宮比羅大将(くびらたいしょう)、金毘羅童子(こんぴらどうじ)ともいう。日本全国の金比羅信仰の中心が香川県琴平町(ことひら)の金刀比羅宮(ことひらぐう)である。

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PhoTones Works #10692 by Takuma Kimura Via Flickr: SONY RX0 Web Site(JP):Takuma Web Site

#PhoTones #SONY #RX0 #takuma #kimura #木村琢磨 #木村 #琢磨 #香川 #金毘羅 #善通寺 #庭園 #和風 #kagawa #konpira #zentsuji

金丸座のこと。現存する日本最古の芝居小屋である旧金毘羅大芝居、別名・金丸座。天保6年(1835年)の建造なので、183年前の芝居小屋…！舞台裏の楽屋だとか装置も見学できて感心しきり。4月のこんぴら歌舞伎も一度は観てみたいものです。

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Our first stop in Kagawa Prefecture was Konpira Shrine (also called Kotohira-gu) in Kotohira-cho. It’s on the side of Mt. Zozu (象頭山、or elephant head) and there are 785 steps up to the main shrine. But even then you are not done! If you don’t run out of time like we did, you can go up another 500 steps or so to the inner shrine. The road leading to the base of the steps (and along the path for the first few hundred steps or so) is lined with restaurants (udon!) and omiyage shops. As you climb the shops give way to stone tablets carved with the names of donors and other side paths to smaller, ancillary shrines and other historic buildings (a kabuki theater, the treasury, a museum). Sadly we were low and time and pretty much just climbed straight up and down. It was worth the climb—the main shrine complex is huge and the view from its perch 521 meters above town is impressive even on a cloudy day.

There is a huge tree just to the left of the haiden (拝殿, offering hall at the main shrine) and it was interesting to see how the tree interacted with the space formed between the buildings. The entire complex is beautiful; there are more patterns and textures of carved wood than I could capture with my poor photography.