2010년 12월 9일 목요일

4.Shrines



If you tour Japan, you will see shrines very easily. A shrine keeps a spirit tablet about Japan's indigenous religions. Japan's indigenous religion is a faith that controls the lives of Japan as a whole. In a shrine of the whole country, more than 2000 gods were kept and there were lots of kinds of gods like guardians or protectors and dieties of villages, people who made remarkable achievements, and so on. Each god had a position and grant different wishes too, so you have to make a wish as your wish.




Every shine has a small door. It was made for resting birds because Japanese believed that birds are enjoys of gods. Also, in the shrine's gardens, there are trees and on the branches, white papers were tied to it and told a person's fortune by drawing lots.Japan's festival, Matsuri, was an ancestral ritual formalities ceremony. Japanese believed that if people devoted their lives to take care of the gods, there lives will be abundant.

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