The three torii gates of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine, slightly warped toward the sky, look as if they are about to flap their wings into the sky
In Wakamiya-oji Avenue stretching toward Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine in Kamakura, the approach one step higher than the roadway that leads from the second torii to the third torii is called “dan-kazura." Because it is located in the ancient capital, one would think that something like this has existed since the Middle Ages, but this is an illusion. The dan-kazura was rebuilt many times in the early modern period, and it was only after renovation work was conducted in 2014 that it took on its current form. Indeed, looking at photos of Wakamiya-oji taken in the Meiji era, the dan-kazura at that time was quite different from the dan-kazura of today. The road surface was not paved, and cherry trees were not planted.
The present-day dan-kazura begins at the Ni-no-Torii (second shrine gate), but it used to begin at the Ichi-no-Torii (first shrine gate). The area from Ichi-no-torii to Ni-no-torii was removed for the construction of the Yokosuka Line. The dan-kazura, which had been a bank on both sides, was replaced by stone masonry between 1961 and 1962, and the cherry trees were planted in 1917. The third torii gate in the photo is also a concrete gateway that was rebuilt after the Great Kanto Earthquake, which destroyed the stone gateway donated by the fourth Tokugawa Shogun, Ietsuna, in 1668. As shown above, even those that have existed for a long time have not always existed in the same form, and in fact, in some cases, they have been upgraded in a modest way.
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PHOTO DATA
No
12623
Shooting Date
Jan 2024
Posted On
August 4, 2024
Place
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Genre
Architectural Photography
Camera
IPHONE 14 PRO
