Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Day 8 - Uneme Matsuri



Just a quick post to show peter he finally had success showing me how to work my camera in full manual mode.

Uneme Matsuri is a festival held at Sarusawa Pond, which is right next to Kofukuji Temple (yesterday's temple-of-the-day).

The Uneme Shrine stands with its back against its Torii gate. It is said that the shrine was constructed to console the soul of Uneme, who had drowned herself in the pond out of disappointment for her unrequited love with an emperor. The legend states that the shrine could not directly face the pond out of sadness caused by her suicide, it turned around overnight.

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