Okay, you can see a lot of dolls all around. It's fascinating what people have donated
and brought here for the shrine to look after
Why underwear?
Say I'm gonna make my offering now.
One of their talismans here is so beautiful. It's actually cherry blossoms.
Right next to Hina no Yuu is a little market and you can see a Torii.
Which means an entrance to a shrine and there's a very interesting shrine
right next to it ...
You're gonna love what you find inside.
I already brought something specific to donate to that shrine.
The name of this shrine is Awashima Jinjya, so Awashima Shima shrine.
And you can see again another big red Torii and in here you can bring
old dolls for example, many Japanese people believe there is a spirit in every item
and especially in things that look like people like dolls and similar.
So you can actually...
Donate them here. So people look after them in case you can't keep them anymore
Okay, first of all
We're gonna go and do "aisatsu" the greeting and great the spirit that resides
in this place.
So I got my five yen and I'm gonna do my prayer.
Okay can see a lot of dolls all around and a lot of statues and sculptures.
It's fascinating what people have donated and brought here for the shrine to look after.
Some things actually look similar so I can see some returning patterns
apart from the Hina dolls as well...
Also spirits that you can find on rooftops have been displayed here.
So if you for example change your house or demolish your house
you take those those sculptures of animals of the rooftops and donate them.
So much to see.
Also, there is another God here that specifically is set to look after women.
And I heard that here people donate something very specific...
There is another custom practiced here at this shrine
since there is a deity or God or spirit, however you prefer to call it
that takes care of women. Here women come and donate their panties to the
god of the shrine to the deity of this shrine and this actually this place where
they used to actually display it, but right now people don't just play it anymore
because they have been some some thieves actually stealing panties.
What you but most people do now is they pack it up and then they throw it into
one every one of those ribs.
So women here donate their underwear so that could be their panties that could
be maybe their bras and they donate it here. They have to be used.
Probably washed afterwards, but you kind of donate them to say "Thank you"
Or do you donate him for the deity of this place to take care of you.
So for example women who have had breast cancer or have breast cancer
might donate their bras here and such.
I know it sounds like a the first place it sounds funny about the same time...
it's actually very connected to this God who's supposed to take care of women
and keep them healthy and happy.
So I brought two of my knickers and I wrapped that up nicely in my little
Fishy pouch here to donate them to keep me healthy.
To keep my female areas healthy... and I asked why underwear?
I heard one saying is that this is the closest to the "female"
the expression of the female, to your sex or your gender or to the breasts as such.
So that's why it's underwear that is getting donated here in the shrine
and other people donate other similar things also phallic objects
and that's all just hidden behind the glass there.
So rather than it being a donation, it's more like ...
you ask the God to look after you with this.
Not sure if you'd say it's a giving but it's like a certain item, a personal item
that you give the God to take care of your health.
Say yeah, I'm gonna make my offering now.
We actually got the chief priest of this shrine to talk with us,
but she is not dressed right now in her priest gear...
So we only got her voice but we're gonna ask a little bit about the hina tradition.
Thank you for your time today.
Could you briefly explain what type of shrine this is?
At Awashima shrine is for the deity Sukuna Hikona.
Sukuna Hikona is a god of medicine and protector of women.
He is supposed to help with fertility, an easy childbirth or finding the right partner
and so a lot of women come here to pray.
Why are there so many dolls here?
In the old days dolls were also used as substitutes in case of misfortunes...
The princess of Tokugawa
???
In recent days this tradition has changed. Dolls that are too old and are not displayed...
will be taken into our care here.
People will pray for the wellbeing of the women who owned them.
Many people come here for this purpose.
There aren't only dolls of girls, but also hedgehogs and such.
I could see sheep and such. What is the meaning of them?
Those are the 12 animals of the animal horoscope.
We will also take care of these as well.
I heard about a ceremony called "Hina Nagashi". What is that?
On March 3rd is the Girls Festival in Japan.
We will take the Hina dolls onto a boat,
Cleaning the dolls, shall protect their former owners from calamities.
People send the dolls off to the realm of the gods, together with their wishes and gratitude...
Thank you so much.
There are lots of omamori, talismans that you can get here at shrines,
one of their talismans here is so beautiful!
It's actually cherry blossoms.
So I got the cherry blossoms one
As you can see the cherry blossoms are just blooming above me as well
And this one is supposed to protect me now so I'm gonna carry that with me as well.
That was actually... it was fun
...it was inspiring and it was really nice to see that a shrine with the gods...
that looks after women, is also run by women. All the girls who were selling
talismans were female. And also the head priestess is also a woman
First time I've seen a shrine functioning like that in Japan.
Seems to be really all about women and girls and protecting them
keeping them healthy and keeping them safe.
So that was a great experience.
Okay, if you come to Wakayama, I think this is definitely a spot
you should not miss on the map. Even if you're not female
I think this is really interesting just to look at all the dolls
and what things people have displayed here because they believe...
They can't throw it away and they would like to have the shrine to look after...
Certain items that have a meaning and that feel special to us
or things that we can't just simply throw away.
Especially if it's items that have protected us or
looked after as when we were little or little girls...
Those are items that are still getting valued here and looked after.
Those were our action-packed days in Wakayama,
and there was so much to do so much to see I! loved the tour!
Love meeting all the people
Enjoying the food. Enjoying the place where we stayed.
Obviously we got like a luxurious room but the other rooms were really nice as well
We had a little bit of a peep.
The food was so good. I wish I could taste this all over again
So I must say I definitely would like to come back here and me the director
We've been saying like "Oh man, we really want to come here again in our free time"
The director loved it as well.
He was allowed to actually taste some of the food because sometimes
he's so busy that he never gets to actually taste all the stuff that I'm allowed to taste. Muhaha
So this was Wakayama. It was a great stay. I'm definitely gonna come back.
So be sure to check the links down below if you're curious finding your way to Wakayama.
It's a great place. The people here are very nice
and they have the certain KANSAI charm that you don't get in Tokyo.
It's not so far away from Osaka and it's not so far away from the Kansai Airport
definitely worth a visit.
So guys come and check it out. We had fun.
I'm glad we had the chance to actually make a video like this.
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