{"id":79,"date":"2008-06-05T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-05-10T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T04:10:09","slug":"fushimi-inari-taisha-%e4%bc%8f%e8%a6%8b%e7%a8%b2%e8%8d%b7%e5%a4%a7%e7%a4%be-part-iv-of-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/fushimi-inari-taisha-%e4%bc%8f%e8%a6%8b%e7%a8%b2%e8%8d%b7%e5%a4%a7%e7%a4%be-part-iv-of-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Fushimi Inari Taisha (\u4f0f\u898b\u7a32\u8377\u5927\u793e), Part IV of V"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished sorting through my Fushimi Inari pictures and, although difficult to do so, cut the remaining pictures I will share with you down to seven. You’ll get three today and the last four tomorrow. (Remember that these pictures look far better if you click on them. Also, if you have a monitor with screen resolution settings of something higher than 1024 x 768 and your browser maximized you’ll have better results.)<\/p>\n

\"restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n

After walking (generally upwards) through a few hundred yards worth of torii<\/a><\/em> we came upon an empty restaurant. We hadn’t eaten breakfast yet so this was perfect. The setting for the eating place was spectacular. We could look out over the groves of trees, bamboo, and torii<\/em> gates while eating in this peaceful setting. We were perched slightly above everything so the views were wonderful.<\/p>\n

In the above photograph you can see the tokonoma<\/em> (\u5e8a\u306e\u9593 or decorative alcove usually featuring a scroll) with ikebana<\/em> (\u751f\u3051\u82b1 or flower arrangement) and also some reserved tables (\u4e88\u7d04\u5e2d). The floor is made of tatami<\/em> (\u7573) mats.<\/p>\n

\"eating<\/a><\/p>\n

\"inarizushi\"<\/a>The lighting in the above picture is not so good, but you can sort of see how marvelous the views are from this restaurant. <\/P><\/p>\n

What does one eat at the main Inari shrine dedicated to kitsune<\/a><\/em>? We ordered inari<\/strong>zushi and kitsune<\/strong> udon of course.<\/p>\n

\"kitsune<\/a>The food was good and my daughter<\/a> (pictured above with me) now considers inarizushi to be her favorite food. I enjoyed talking in Japanese with the old lady from across the road. It was from her house that the food came. I said this was a restaurant, but it wasn’t in the typical sense as no food preparations went on there. All of the food was cooked and brought over from the house across the dirt path. This place was simply for eating.<\/p>\n

\"Japanese<\/a><\/p>\n

After eating we headed down the path instead of farther up. We didn’t actually make it to the main shrine at the top of the hill, but that just means we have to go back someday to explore in more detail. \ud83d\ude09 We were departing the country in a few hours so we didn’t have time to take all of the paths.<\/p>\n

The way down was a different path than the way up and featured many shrines (even a Buddhist one or two). The Shinto one pictured above has a plaque that says \u7389\u59eb\u5927\u793e (jewel princess big shrine or tamahimetaisha<\/I>). \u7389\u59eb has to do with wedding places so I’m guessing this shrine has something to do with weddings; perhaps offerings are left here to wish for a successful marriage. Tamahime Taisha<\/I> featured the first of the many Japanese lanterns we were about to see along this exit path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished sorting through my Fushimi Inari pictures and, although difficult to do so, cut the remaining pictures I will share with you down to seven. You’ll get three today and the last four tomorrow. (Remember that these pictures look far better if you click on them. Also, if you have a monitor with screen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[101,102,85,88,103,86,87,521,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12891,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/12891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}