The primary forest, which lasts for more than 2000 years, is between holy and profane.
-Sentence / Wafu Staff Ayako Takahashi (generally Japanese culture including travel. Queen Reiko Queen in charge serialization)-
What taught me about the “Tsubori no Mori” that spreads in the temple grounds of Shimogamo Shrine is the one-night hotel in Mitofu, Mitaka (Pattomari) in Pontocho It was the husband of the predecessor of "). He showed me a picture of the persimmon forest taken by myself, but it seemed like a bird was resting on a branch of a virgin forest tree, so a few days later, "I told you," With a letter saying “I saw a mountain pigeon”, and a greatly stretched photo arrived at my home. 
That's why, when walking through the oak forest, look for birds while looking up at the trees. It is a forest that remains from the Jomon period. Besides birds and animals, it seems that many things live. What is visible and what is invisible. The primary forest that leads from a residential area to a shrine is a "border." There is a feeling that you are in Kyoto between these gods and worlds. A forest of chapels. Festival night. alley. bridge. pond. There is not a moment that seems to be drawn into a different world if you are a little discouraged. Perhaps the people of Kyoto naturally feel awe for the invisible. The city of Tokyo is bright even in the middle of the night, and the boundaries are difficult to understand. There are many shrines and temples in Kyoto, and many people worship. If you walk in the city, you will find a figure of a guardian protecting the family on the roof.
Visit the Shimogamo Shrine main hall from Kashiwa Forest, and if you wish to pray for beauty at Kawai Shrine (Kawajinja) on your way back, you will feel clean. However, if you go out to Demachi (demachi) shopping area and squeeze the tombs of "Demachi Futaba", you are already in the world.
Kyoto Shimogamo walk article from here!
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