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Kyoto Sights Day 2 Okame memorial and dolls at Sembon Shakado
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| Strolling the streets | Shosei-en garden | Sembon Shakado, oldest wood building | |
| Okame masks, Senbon Shakado | Hello Mt. Fuji | ||
| Kyoto Sights Day 2 | |||
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The morning of day 2, walking to get to Shosei'en
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Shosei-en garden was walking distance from out hotel at Kyoto station. A nice garden and there was also an interesting looking building. I had never been there. A nice discovery.
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Pictures were not allowed so there is little to show.
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Main Hall, Sembon Shakado aka Daihoonji Temple, Kyoto
According to legend, the carpenter made the length of the central pillar too short. He asked his wife for advice (an act considered unbecoming for a man at the time) and she suggested adding an extra piece, which her husband did and the building was completed. Before the hall was unveiled, Okame supposedly committed suicide to atone for her husband's loss of face. Her husband attached a Okame mask (good luck mask dating back to mythological times. In this case her name coincided) to the pillar at the roof raising ceremony so her spirit could see the finished temple. Nowadays Okame masks are a popular mask that can be seen all over Japan and carpenters sometimes attach them to buildings they are making as a good luck charm. Okame masks are good luck charms but Ohame herself was not lucky. The main hall contains a collection of Okame and Otafuku dolls - the latter is a Shinto kami associated with fertility, happy marriage and painless childbirth. | ||
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Noriko's hobby.
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