Petit tour at Hie Jinja

A petit tour at Hie Jinja - Hie shrine - near the Capitol Tokyu Hotel and the Diet building. Policemen that definitely look slender than your average neighborhood' policebox dwellers are spread all over the area. A sterile area the Hie shrine does not cheer up, despite the foliage still in Spring hues. Hie shrine has everything one is looking for on a Japanese postcard. The red pillars contrasting with stripes of white. The shining gold curled edges of the roofs, the silence blanketed by the continuous noise of the traffic outside, strange monkey faced guardians on the precinct, the Prudential Financial mighty white building in the distance, dwarfing the main hall (let's not start the yawningly usual tradition meets modern cliché),
the barrels of sake (70 liters each) at the entrance - corporations' gifts to have the gods get drunk for sure, the wisteria roofed small cluster of red tables like benches covered with plastic sheet. A surprising feature is a collection of fighting hens, alive in cages - gifts from an association for the protection of ... fighting hens. Hens from Kochi - in Shikoku I assume - good for chicken broth, better than fighting. I will never suggest you to visit Hie shrine. Too sterile to be true. It was rebuilt circa 1970. This may explain that.



On an wish wood plaque, someone wrote a strong wish to be absolutely granted a job at mobile phone carrier DoCoMo. DoCoMo Anywhere in life.

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