Field Trip (Yoshida Fall 2022 Class)
For today’s class, we visited shrines near Doshisha campus.
In our textbook, we learned about martial arts and sports, so we first stopped at Shiramine Shrine, which has a connection to sports. It is said that the shrine grants benefits for not just sports, but exam study as well. This is because the traditional Japanese sport of kemari is a sport where you can’t “drop the ball.” What did everyone pray for, I wonder?
Next we went to Seimei Shrine, which is a shrine that celebrates the onmyoji (diviner) Abe no Seimei. He is the god of warding off bad luck, so the students prayed at the shrine, pulled fortunes, and bought omamori (charms) during the visit.
