Iwami Ginzan Omori

 

Omori, like Yunotsu where I started walking today, is both a World Heritage Site and a Historic Preservation District.

One my way through the town I made a quick visit to Anyoji Temple.

The Kote-e dragon is quite magnificent, and I have posted it before, but here is another angle.

I believe this is a sutra repository.

It is a Jodo Shinshu temple and so I suspect this is an Amida....

Many of the old buildings have been restored, and many remain uninhabited...

Toyosaka Shrine was a temple until 1868. It enshrines Mori Motonari. A statue of him was in the castle above the town but moved to the temple later.

Since this visit the shrine has been much renovated....

I have posted on Omori numerous times before, and will certainly be posting more later.

Rather than wasting my time inserting links to previous posts, which almost no one bothers to follow, I simply suggest you click on the omori tag at the bottom of the post.

The final photo in the post is the entrance foyer of the impressive Kumagai Residence, well worth the entry fee.

The previous post in thois series on day 38 of my walk along the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage was on the walk from Yunotsu on the Ginzan Kaido.

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A Morning at Iwami Ginzan

 

The World Heritage Site of Iwami Ginzan is only 30 kilometers from my home, and as I had friend who had a business there I used to visit often, even before it became a World Heritage site in 2007. All these photos are from one such trip. The first needs no explanation.

This is a window in a small seated shelter along the footpath that runs along the stream from the main parking area up the valley towards the mine...

The next photo is  of the Fudo Myo statue at the entrance to Seisuiji Temple.

The photo below needs no explanation...

The photo below is a lightshade at my friends shop that seems to be based on the Japanese umbrella

The next couple of shots are of some flower displays along the main street of Omori;

I recently posted another set of such shots taken on a May 5th visit.

Below is a gate into the garden of a wealthy merchant's property.

No explanation need for the photo below....

A different photo of the some scene shown below is in a post I did on the facades of Omori.

Some other earlier posts on Iwami Ginzan include these posts on the Fall colours....

Hunting the Fall Colors in Omori

Autumn in Omori

Autumn Splendor at Kigami Shrine

Other posts on Iwami Ginzan include...

Omori Historic Preservation District

Kanzeonji Temple

500 Rakan at Iwami Ginzan

For a shot of this entrance to the wealthy merchants home, but with a different painting and different flower display see the Omori in 2D post.

Omori Floral

Up in the mountains not far from here is the Iwami Ginzan World Heritage Site, and the village of Omori is a large part of it.

Pretty much just one long street in the narrow valley below the mine, Omori is where the samurai, bureaucrats, and merchants lived.

Before it was made a World Heritage site the town was already a Preservation District and so is mostly made up of Edo Period architecture and had the unsightly power poles removed.

All these photos were take on a one kilometer walk down the main street of the town on a May 5th.

While some of the flowers are planted in planters, pots,or in the ground, many others are cut flowers displayed in sections of bamboo tied to drainpipes.