Amanohashidate Shrine [25]

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Title Amanohashidate Shrine [25]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 23, Amanohashidate Shrine, 25
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000
Subject Shinto shrines (Japan)--Amanohashidate; Fortune-telling--Japan
Keywords Moto Ise Kono Jinja; omikuji
Spatial Coverage Ama no Hashidate (Japan); Miyazu-shi (Japan); Kyoto (Japan : Prefecture)
Description Photo taken at the Moto Ise Kono Shinto shrine at Miyazu, the village at the north end of Amanohashidate
Caption on Slide Amanohashidate, Shrine (shinto), omikuji tied to trees.
Additional Information Omikuji is a strip of fortune issued by a Japanese temple or shrine for a minimal donation, after a numbered or marked lot is pulled out of a box. Omikuji of "less than excellent" sign may be left tied to trees for a better luck, or it may be left on purpose for successful marriage proposal. Amanohashidate is a pine-covered sand spit whose name means "bridge to heaven." Image was scanned from color slide. Caption is from photographer's notes on slide
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
ARK ark:/87278/s63f55bc
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 329473
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63f55bc
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