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No.308 Yanaka Seven Gods of Good Luck traveling 1

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The Seven Gods of Good Luck



Taninaka Seven Gods of Good Luck are called Seven Gods of Good Luck in Edo oldest. The Seven Gods of Good Luck traveling is the one of " of ‘¸ of Hotei of "Ebisu", "the breadwinner", "the god of treasure", "the Sarasvati", "the God of Wealth and Longevity", "the God of Longevity" and ". It is the one which begins from Kyoto in Muromachi era to pray for "the 10,000 width invitation" such as the family safety and the business prosperity, the marriage concerning the temples and shrines where 7 gods are deified and spreads over the whole country in the Edo period and goes and worships in the New Year's. It is possible to get a red seal by setting up the divine object in this period and giving it. Seven Gods of Good Luck are made the symbol of the belief from the old days as the god who brings happiness to the people and the refreshingness of the heart after ending this Taninaka Seven Gods of Good Luck circumference, the refreshed sense in the heart are pleasant with anything.
The setting up of Taninaka Seven Gods of Good Luck, a red seal are done until January 1st (New Year's Day)-January 10th (in case of 2011) and time is done until 9 o'clock-17 o'clock. It pays 200 yen when buying 1000 yen of Taninaka Seven Gods of Good Luck red seal Japanese paper at each temple first and receiving a red seal at each temple. In the time, it had better see about 3 hours beforehand even if that the time quite passes when total distance becomes about 5 km and it seems that it is possible to walk for about 1 hour when computing simply it it within 30 minutes but is doing doing such as the stopping on the way is early and it is minimum passes. (It thinks that it becomes not possible when the time is short to enjoy that there has been a feeling to be walking quickly only only to get a red seal and walking).











Tahata station -> east Kakuji (About 8 about 0.4-km minutes)

First, it starts from JR Tahata station (the north exit).
A label with "the Taninaka Seven Gods of Good Luck circumference" was pasted in front of the gate.
There is "eastern Kakuji" where the God of Wealth and Longevity is deified when leaving the ticket gate and walking on the left.
<The God of Wealth and Longevity and blowing "ROKUZIYU">
It is eastern Kakuji and the OBJ DO but asking lot.
The divine favor : The popularity


The temple which was established in Muromachi middle's (Entoku 3) 1491
It is one pair of guarding gods of a temple gate images that fall to the photograph, being red slightly.
It says that it gets well when pasting red paper to the place of the ill "The red paper guarding gods of a temple gate".


In the Japanese paper (1000 yen) to have entered and for Seven Gods of Good Luck to have been drawn at the building of the left hand
It bought the red seal Japanese paper that a red seal (200 yen) in this place was pressed.

The eastern Kakuji nave The God of Wealth and Longevity which was unveiled in is deified.
The God of Wealth and Longevity in this temple has a cane and a sacred gem PAR=0ETC and wearing on a crown of the gold brocade and grasping a scroll of sutras with the both hands

When passing by an eastern Kakuji nave, there is a Japanese garden in the reverse.


The eastern Kakuji -> Aogumo temple (About 18 about 1-km minutes)

It walks in the residential area while seeing mapping.

Specified at the map, too, of it "Chitose hot water"
Because the chimney which is in the right runs out on the way
The thing with the public bath to have thought whether or not it went out of business but to be making spring with gas now

Because the red seal Japanese paper doesn't want to put a fold
It rounded in this way and it carried.
It is convenient when there is a pipe.

The flag can be seen when turning to the left at the narrow alley and becomes Aogumo temple.
<Ebisu and the barbarian>
"NZI" which says Aogumo temple ·
The divine favor : The honesty

The nave at Aogumo temple
Ebisu god is deified in and in setting up, he can worship.
But telling to have been promoted by the Horeki year (around 1760)
The one where the present nave was reconstructed in 1960 because the air raid of World War II burned down (Showa 35)

The procession forms in the place to get a red seal.
It equals the line of the red seal after going and worshiping at the nave.

There is "a postmark", too, in addition to the red seal.
The red seal depends by 200 yen, but the postmark is free of charge and the seal can be put by it.
There were many, too, persons whom both are pushing.

My red seal Japanese paper
It worshiped two Seven Gods of Good Luck. Five after

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