KYOTO--Police have opened an investigation into graffiti scratched into a pillar of the Sanmon gate, a centuries-old national treasure at Chionin temple, the main place of worship of the Jodo sect ...
Fushimi Inari Taisha is famous for the vermillion shrine gates that line mountain paths. As the head Inari shrine, it has 30,000 subordinate shrines throughout Japan. Since its foundation in 711 ...
Kyoto proudly preserves its traditional ... which has a pathway through 10,000 vermillion torii gates. This is one of the ...