Address : 香川県仲多度郡琴平町８９２−１
Asahimachi Sonota, Kotohira, Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Asahimachi Sonota, Kotohira, Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
카가와현에 위치한 코토히라절에는 산중턱에 있는 절까지 이어지는 계단으로 된 산도(参道)가 있다. 각종 음식점과 기념품 가게들은 산도의 양얖을 가득 메우고 있을 뿐만 아니라. 점포와 점포사이는 여름철의 일사를 피하기 위해 마련한 반투명한 천막이 드리워져 있어서 외부도 아닌, 내부도 아닌, 중간정도의 반 외부공간을 형성하고 있는것이 이 산도의 특징이다.
Located at 521m halfway to the top of Mount Zōzu, the shrine stands at
the end of a long path, with 785 steps to the main shrine and a total of
1,368 steps to the inner shrine. Since the Muromachi Period
pilgrimages to the shrine became popular, and even today usually
hundreds of visitors in a day climb the steps of Mount Zōzu. On the way
to the shrine is located a sake
museum, various stores selling a variety of goods, and there are lots
of stones in which are the names of donators to the shrine carved in kanji-characters. Due to the Honji suijaku theory which claimed the local kami were incarnations of Buddhist gods, Kotohira shrine was in times prior to the Meiji era equally a Buddhist and a Shintoist sanctuary.
From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotohira-g%C5%AB
From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotohira-g%C5%AB