Fukuoka's most powerful power spot, Iwaya Park, a sacred place where gods and Buddhas descend скачать в хорошем качестве

Fukuoka's most powerful power spot, Iwaya Park, a sacred place where gods and Buddhas descend

Yaba-Hita-Hikosan Quasi-National Park "Iwaya Park" Nationally designated important cultural property ・Iwaya Shrine main hall ・Main hall of Kumano Shrine Address: 838-1701, Hoshuzan, Toho-mura, Asakura-gun, Fukuoka The area around Iwaya Shrine is a mountainous region formed by volcanic activity and weathering erosion in the areas of Hiko-san, Shaka-dake, and Dainichi-dake, and is made of andesite agglomerates with strange rock formations and caves. The flora is unique and not found in the surrounding areas. As a result, the area has also been designated as Yaba-Hita-Hikosan Quasi-National Park. According to the shrine's tradition, Iwaya Shrine was founded in 532, and it is a shrine with a long history. The deity is a stone called "Hoshuishi," which gave the place name Hoshu-san its name, and there are ancient legends about it. In 547, during the reign of the 29th Emperor Kinmei, a shining meteorite suddenly fell from the sky into the cave, and a monk named the meteorite "Hojuseki" (Holy Jewel Stone) and constructed a shrine to worship it as a sacred object, which is said to be the founding of the shrine. In the 4th year of the Taika era (648), the divine decree commanded the villagers to "wrap the star treasure, the Hojuseki, in thatched straw and offer it to the shrine." Since then, the "Kumo-kae no Ritual" has been held on October 19th of leap years (once every 4 years). It is said that if you look at the sacred object, the Hojuseki, inside the thatched straw, your eyes will be blindfolded, so even when changing the straw, the ritual is performed blindfolded and with a sakaki leaf in your mouth. The "Iwaya Shrine Main Hall" was built in a depression in "Gongen-iwa," one of the strangely shaped rock formations, and its magnificent appearance that blends in with nature has an overwhelming sense of awe and grandeur that overwhelms those who see it. The current main hall was built in 1698 by Kuroda Tsunamasa, the fourth lord of the Chikuzen Fukuoka domain. The building consists of an outer hall and an inner hall within it. The outer hall faces south and is a single-story irimoya-style roof with five bays and five beams thatched with cedar bark, while the inner hall is roofed with thick planks and a single-flowing show shelf. It was designated an Important Cultural Property by the National Government in 1988 as a valuable structure related to Hiko-san Shugendo. At the front is a three-bay porch for worshippers. Further back in the mountains than the Iwaya Shrine Main Hall is the Kumano Shrine Main Hall (a National Important Cultural Property) as a shrine within the grounds, built inside a large cave. The shrine, built by villagers in 1686, is a unique wooden-roofed three-bay shrine with a floating shelf that stands against the steep rocks of Kumanoiwa, where a tengu kicked a hole. VOICEVOX: Kyushu Sora JAPAN in 4K #Japan travel #japantrip #power spot #travel #history #tourism #power spot #spectacular view #Fukuoka Prefecture #Tarokichi's solo trip #Nationally designated important cultural property #Yama-Hita-Hikosan Quasi-National Park #Iwaya Park