Aug 17, 2023
Benzaijima Island (弁財島) with its torii gate leading to a small shrine to the goddess Benzaiten in Owase, Mie Prefecture
Photo by TOM in 2018
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Benzaijima Island (弁財島) with its torii gate leading to a small shrine to the goddess Benzaiten in Owase, Mie Prefecture
Photo by TOM in 2018
Parishioners working to hang shimenawa straw ropes around the sacred husband & wife camphor tree (夫婦楠) just inside the entrance to Owase Jinja Shrine (尾鷲神社) in Owase, Mie Prefecture during the Ōkusu Shimenawa-kake Shinji ritual (大楠注連縄掛神事) held on the fourth day of June and December
Image from the shrine's official website
A boat parade with a sacred palanquin as the final phase of the autumn festival of Miki Jinja Shrine (三木神社) in Mikiura, Owase City, Mie Prefecture
Photo by 東紀州地域の漁村を撮る人 [Higashi Kishū Chiiki no Gyoson wo Toru Hito] on November 5, 2023 (see source)
A sunny September day in Owase, Mie Prefecture
Photo from the city's official twitter account on September 29. 2023
A view of Owase, Mie Prefecture on an early summer day
Photo from the city's official twitter account on June 20, 2023
Sunrise on the harbor in Owase, Mie Prefecture
Amanecer en el puerto de Owase, prefectura de Mie
Image from the city's official twitter account, December 16, 2023
Yamabushi mountain ascetics praying at the Yakiyama Kōjindō (八鬼山荒神堂), a modest chapel enshrining the fire & hearth deity Sanbō-Kōjin (三宝荒神) at the top of Yakiyama Mountain (八鬼山) in Owase, Mie Prefecture
Photo from a November 5, 2022 article in the Chunichi Shimbun