July 7, 2014 : My Beloved Fushimi Inari Taisha Claimed the Top Spot!
© 安岡喜晴 (JoyShine)
YIPPEEEEEEE! My beloved Fushimi Inari Taisha won the first place for overseas tourists!
Since my university days were the hardest days of my life so far, I visited there regularly and made a prayer saying,
"I must graduate and pass the national examination no matter what! So please give me strength!!" lol
Later, all my worries went away and everything went perfectly!
Although there are many shrines in Kyoto, I chose this place because I felt that there was a different aura in this mountain - an aura that was different from other shrines.
And even though this place is neither a national treasure nor a world heritage site, many tourists are attracted to this place - I think this phenomenon is due to this aura.
After my graduation, when the national examination was approaching, I experienced an amazing story about Hushimi Inari Taisha:
On the day before the national examination, when I was about to go to the hotel to stay, my father told me that he had a mysterious dream last night.
The dream was that a priest of Fushimi Inari Taisha appeared in my father's dream and said, "I will give you this sword, and in return, I want you to make a song and give it to me.
My father immediately made a song and sang it to the priest, and the priest left with gratitude and laughter.
This dream is quite mysterious, because if this dream came from the unconscious in my deep psyche, then the priest should appear in my dream.
Why in my father's dream? So I think there really is some divine power in this mountain.