#Toyokuni shrine

[bonguri]

20231230 Nakamura park-Meieki 2 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: うなぎの寝床とはこういう間口のことを言うのかな。 @Nakamura park area, Nakamura ward, Nagoya city, Aichi pref., Japan.（愛知県名古屋市中村区 中村公園地区）

[chitaka45]

京都　豊国神社　🌸蜂須賀桜🌸

kyoto toyokuni-jinja 🌸hachisuga sakura🌸

[selidor]

[nobrashfestivity]

Utagawa Toyokuni Perspective View of Act 1 of Chushingura: Wakasanosuke Protecting Lady Kaoyo against Moronao at Hachiman Shrine, 1792

[carraways-son]

Mardi

Matinée studieuse avec le Kid, avant de remonter le cours de la Kamo-Gawa à la découverte de nouveaux hôtes ailés et palmés, ainsi que de nouveaux quartiers un peu à l’écart des sites emblématiques de la ville, soit déjà visités comme le Pavillon d’Or, Kinkaku-ji (une splendeur dont je ne résiste pas au plaisir de poster une photo prise il y a 5 ans), soit programmés sur les prochaines semaines. Sur le chemin du retour, la curiosité m’a guidé avec bonheur vers un shrine (temple shinto) majestueux : Toyokuni-jinja, pourtant proche de chez nous. Mais il faut dire que notre maison, au style typiquement japonais (avec le confort un peu spartiate qui va avec), est entourée de dizaines de temples. Kyôto compterait d’ailleurs plus d’un millier de temples et sanctuaires.

[milehighdad]

Morinomiya-Station. Osaka Loop Line. Osaka Station-Osaka-jo Park Station- Osaka-jo - Kaiyodo Figure Museum - Toyokuni Shrine - Moriomiya Station-Osaka Station. ] 森ノ宮駅。

大阪駅→大阪城公園駅→大坂城→海洋堂フィギュアミュージアム→豊国神社。 大阪環状線。

[joe-takes-photos]

[kyotodreamtrips]

Hachisuka zakura (蜂須賀桜) at Toyokuni Shrine (豊国神社) in Kyoto. The back ground is the famous karamon (唐門) gate.

[dummy-kanji]

Hall of One Thousand Tatami Mats por ProPeak Photography Por Flickr: The largest structure on Miyajima Island, the unfinished Toyotomi Shrine is a magnificent specimen of 400-year-old Japanese architecture.

[cma-japanese-art]

Eight Views of Famous Places: Evening Bell in Kamakura: The Mountains in Awa Province from the Hachiman Shrine in Tsurugaoka, Utagawa Toyokuni II, early 1830s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese Art

Size: Overall: 22.4 x 35.3 cm (8 13/16 x 13 7/8 in.); with margins: 25 x 37 cm (9 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.) Medium: color woodblock print

https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.357

[daeva-agas]

Speaking of Nobu and gods. He really seems like he just doesn’t like the Buddhist sects, but he kind of has a “just in case” attitude with the Shinto gods for quite a while.

‘Cause like... he... kind of regretted Hieizan, you know? Sort of. Some time after he razed Enryakuji on Hieizan, he went and asked a Shinto priest like “I burned the mountain, do you think something bad would happen to the capital?” The priest said “So far there’s been no records of bad things happening just because something went wrong on Mount Hiei”, so Nobu was like “Oh okay then”.  

He didn’t regret Enryakuji, no. It’s the mountain that he was worried about, because superstitions that the mountain is a barrier against demons/bad luck. Also, there’s a Hiyoshi Taisha in the mountain that got burned as collateral damage, so there’s that. “Hiyoshi Taisha” is the shrine of the mountain god. It’s so funny because it’s not really relevant to Hideyoshi.

Although, because it has a name like that, legends say that Toyotomi supporters use this shrine as a cover to worship the Toyokuni Daimyoujin (Hideyoshi) during the Anti Toyotomi crackdowns under the Edo bakufu. But well, in Nobu’s time it’s really not connected to Hideyoshi TBH. 

Not entirely sure when he eventually just stopped caring about deities altogether. Frois’s writings can be a bit ????? sometimes, so I’m being careful with it. I always worry that he had misunderstood something due to culture miscommunication or him taking hyperbole too seriously. 

[bonguri]

20231230 Nakamura park-Meieki 3 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: ここになにかがあった証拠が残っている。 @Nakamura park area, Nakamura ward, Nagoya city, Aichi pref., Japan.（愛知県名古屋市中村区 中村公園地区）

[samurailoveballadhistory]

If Ieyasu was deified like you mentioned in your previous post, were Hideyoshi and Nobunaga, too?

They were! I wrote a new post that mentioned Nobunaga was deified as Takeisao no Kami. This... may not actually be a proper name, and is just a designation saying "the god of Takeisao shrine".

Hideyoshi was deified as Toyokuni Daimyōjin. His shrines were actually demolished for a while, by the Tokugawa, and worshipping the Toyokuni Daimyōjin is not allowed. The shogun himself actually doesn't care, it's the vassals who pitched a fit over it. Probably fearing that faith in Hideyoshi would encourage people to riot because the Edo shogunate is still in its foundation stages.

[harvard-art-museums-prints]

Triptych: Men and Women Walking in Shrine Precinct, Utagawa Toyokuni, Harvard Art Museums: Prints

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel Size: 33.4 x 70.1 cm (13 1/8 x 27 5/8 in.) Medium: Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/71489

[hyaenagallery]

The Mimizuka (literally “Ear Mound”, often translated as “Ear Tomb”), an alteration of the original Hanazuka (literally “Nose Mound”) is a monument in Kyoto, Japan, dedicated to the sliced noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians as well as Ming Chinese troops taken as war trophies during the Japanese invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598. The monument enshrines the severed noses of at least 38,000 Koreans killed during Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions. The shrine is located just to the west of Toyokuni Shrine, the Shinto shrine honoring Hideyoshi in Kyoto. Traditionally, Japanese warriors would bring back the heads of enemies slain on the battlefield as proof of their deeds, however, the process of nose collection in lieu of heads became the feature of the second Korean invasion. Remuneration was paid to soldiers by their daimyo commanders based on the number of severed heads they submitted to collection stations, where inspectors meticulously counted, recorded, salted and packed the heads bound for Japan. However, because of the number of civilians killed along with soldiers, and crowded conditions on the ships that transported troops, it was far easier to just bring back noses instead of whole heads. Japanese chroniclers on the second invading campaign do not fail to mention that the noses hacked off the faces of the massacred were also of ordinary civilians mostly in the provinces Gyeongsang, Jeolla, and Chungcheong. In the second invasion Hideyoshi’s orders were thus: “Mow down everyone universally, without discriminating between young and old, men and women, clergy and the laity—high ranking soldiers on the battlefield, that goes without saying, but also the hill folk, down to the poorest and meanest—and send the heads to Japan.“ #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXqi4xhF1_/?igshid=1vqh6xxbbroid

[renwritesrandomthings]

イケメン戦国〜ストーリーラリーイベント

Warlords' Winter Vacation in Present Day Kyoto -walking tour-

■Honnoji Stone Landmark

■Honnoji Hokkeshuu Main Temple

■Kenkun Shrine [ Shrine Diety is Nobunaga]

■Randen Arashiyama Station

■Toei Uzumasa Eigamura [studio for jidai or period films]

So, beginning from the stone monument you can get the stories and avatars with your Ikesen App.

Further information will announced in the Toei Site:

http://www.toei-eigamura.com/event/detail/254

Oh, Btw, thank you for not forgetting Hideyoshi this time Cybird. HAHAHAHAHA because that would be historically insulting and inaccurate, okay.

They also extended the walking tour until March 31. If your visiting, try to explore Nijo Castle for Genji Monogatari. And, Toyokuni Shrine for Azuchi-Momoyama cultural items under the Toyotomi Clan. Then, Daigo-ji temple for the infamous, Cherry Blossom Party of Hideyoshi.