Kawai-jinja Shrine is near the south gate of Tadasu-no-mori Forest at the entrance of Shimogamo Jinja Shrine. Here, we can expect blessings from the shrine's deity for an easy delivery, children’s healthy growth, matchmaking, and so on. Recently, the gods here read (and answer) women’s supplications for their beauty that are made using cute mirror-shaped tablets called kagami ema. Of course I prayed very hard for my own skin! By the way, there is a tiny, mobile, thatched house in these precincts. It is the restoration of a house once lived in by Kamo no Chomei (1153?-1216) who wrote Hojo-ki.
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Kyoto Kawai Jinja Shrine
Pray for your beauty by way of a mirror-shaped tablet

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Beautiful line of lanterns

Kawai Jinja Shrine

Mirror-shape tablets called kagami ema

Mallow leaves are this shrine’s symbol

Inside the main hall

Just after the gate has opened

Early morning

Guardian lion

Mirror at the shrine

Hojo - a tiny, mobile, thatched house

Huge numbers of tablets are dedicated to God

Shrine gate
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