長崎県大村市内にある私のお気に入りの場所です。
この神社は 江戸時代のある時 跡継ぎ問題のために大村家が取り潰しの危機にさらされ その後 許されたのを感謝して そのときの将軍 徳川家光を祭るために建立されたといわれています。
春に美しい桜を見たいなら ココでしょう。超オススメ桜名所です。
早く咲かないかな・・・サクラ。
写真の鳥居をくぐって左右に月の池、日の池があり 長い階段を上がると 枯山水のお庭 旧円融寺庭園があります。 長い間忘れられ草むらに埋もれていた石のオブジェは マジで語りかけてきますよ。
上の写真の大きな鳥居に隣り合うように ちょっと奥に 下の写真の鳥居があります。
Here is one of my favorite places in Omura City. The Omura Gokoku Jinjya was established by the Omura family for honoring Tokugawa Iemitsu, third tycoon of the Tokugawa shogunate. The Omura Clan had made a tiny mistake such as just forgetting to apply to the Edo shogunate for the next heir of the Omura family. I think that was an insignificant teeny-weeny thing but at that time that wasn't. Missing one communication with the Edo shogunate deserved an enough reason to condemn the Omura Clan to be destroyed. However the Omura Clan struggled and thought over how to go through the crisis, as they always did, and those ideas did work. Tokugawa Iemitsu shrugged off the mistake and the Omura Clan was grateful for that. The Omura Gokoku Shrine was built to represent their gratitude to Iemitsu.
If you visit Omura in spring, it would be a good idea to come and see cherry trees in here. I believe here is the best place for the wonderful cherry blossoms. If you passed through the gate, Torii, you'll make out two pools on the both sides of the pass. One is called the Moon Pool and the other is the Sun Pool. Rising up the long steps, there is an old, serene and stunning Japanese dry landscape garden, Kare-Sansui. The garden had been forgotten for a long time, as a matter of fact an old man was saying that he didn't know there was a wonderful garden in here, this place was just a bush as he was a child. I love the combination of three stones that represents hill, fall and stream. I can tell you, the rocks would even speak to you something.
この道路は長崎街道の一部です。街道の曲がり角には神社がよく見られます。長崎街道もここまでまっすぐ来て 神社の手前で左に折れます。
私はこの静かな美しい神社が好きです。
でも私にとっては謎だらけの場所です。歴史セミナーで教えてもらっても 敷地内の看板の説明を読んでも 今でも わからない。 枯山水のお庭とお墓がある神社。
Pretty close to the torii in the first pic, there is another little torii and long narrow steps. And the paved road in the foreground of the second pic, is part of the Nagasaki Kaido which will take a left just before the shrine. Apparently on the most corners of the Kaido, shrines were there. I can only guess but maybe to pray for tourists.
For me, this place is nothing but being mysterious and incomprehensive. No matter how much an instructor explained or the sign spelled that out, I don't understand. My questions are; why is it there are the tombstones in the shrine or why is it there is a Japanese rock garden in the shrine NOT in the temple and why is it there are two different entrances in the same place and why is it the shrine has some different names?
The Omura Gokoku Shrine is right beneath the Omura Station in the map.
http://www.city.omura.nagasaki.jp/e/click_map.htm
The shrine is actually one of the blue points. And the name is "Garden of the old Temple Yenyu-Ji" in the map. I wonder why...there is no temple, though, even if there used to be a temple, why was the temple before the shrine was built at the same place. I understand shrine and temple are oil and water.
Let's get confused together and eat lots of sweets!
Doesn't Kaido mean road? You mentioned tombstones at the shrine? You mean like a burial ground?
By the way, I'm never going to be able to loose weight since everytime I come to your website, I get so hungry looking at your delicious pastries, cookies and breads. I have to go eat now!!!
Ell