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Sunday, January 25, 2026

＜京都・北野天満宮 骨董市＞
雪が降っていたので出店数も少なく、客も少なかった（午前中）。
収穫はゼロ、顔なじみの出店者とお話しただけで北野天満宮を後にした。
とにかく京都は寒かった。大阪に戻って「大阪は暖かい」と思った。
#photography #マストドン写真部 #北野天満宮 #KitanoTenmangu #Kyoto

＜発見＞
京都市消防局 上京消防署 北野消防出張所（〒602-8384 京都府京都市上京区紙屋川町８７０）
消防署の敷地内に設置された自動販売機は、缶コーヒーが100円だった（同じ物を他の自販機で買うと140円から150円）。
おそらく消防署員の福利厚生を主目的として設置されているのだろう。しかし、公道に向けて設置されていて誰でも買うここができる。但し現金のみ、カード不可。

One of the best preserved sections of the Odoi (御土居) is at Kitano Tenman-gū (北野天満宮).
Usually out-of-bounds, the Odoi remnant is opened up for visitors during the spring and autumn seasons (for a fee of course).
#Kyoto #京都 #Odoi #御土居 #KitanoTenmangū #北野天満宮 #Japan

Baika-sai coincides with one of the city's biggest market days, so you can expect Kitano Tenmangū (北野天満宮) to be bustling today!

#KitanoTenmangu #北野天満宮 #Baikasai #梅花祭 #天神さん #Tenjinsan #marketday #market

🎎PLUM BLOSSOM FESTIVAL🌸

In the Kyōto calendar there are a few times each year when the public is able to rub shoulders with maiko and geiko for a small fee.
During 'Baika-sai' (梅花祭) they serve tea beside Kitano Tenman-gū's plum orchard.

plum blossoms-
singing Tenjin's sutra
a sparrow
梅咲や天神経をなく雀
-Issa.

#KitanoTenmangu #北野天満宮 #Baikasai #梅花祭 #Kyoto #京都 #Japan

1)
Kitano Tenman-gū (北野天満宮) is undoubtedly the home of ume blossoms in Kyotō.
Sugawara-no-Michizane (菅原道真 845-903), deified here as the god of scholarship, was passionate about plum blossoms (his favourite tree even flew to him in exile!).
From mid-February the shrine's orchard of ume trees opens.

#KitanoTenmangu #北野天満宮 #ume #SugawaranoMichizane #菅原道真

🎎PLUM BLOSSOM FESTIVAL🌸

In the Kyōto calendar there are a few times each year when the public is able to rub shoulders with maiko and geiko for a small fee.
During 'Baika-sai' (梅花祭), reduced in scale this year, geisha and maiko serve tea beside Kitano Tenman-gū's plum orchard.

#KitanoTenmangu #北野天満宮 #Baikasai #梅花祭 #ume #梅 #Kyoto #京都 #Japan

1) Kitano Tenman-gū (北野天満宮) is undoubtedly the home of ume blossoms in Kyotō.
Sugawara-no-Michizane (菅原道真 845-903), deified here as the god of scholarship and learning, was passionate about plum blossoms.
From mid-February the shrine's orchard of ume trees opens, and on February 25th geisha and maiko gather for the Baika-sai (plum blossom festival).

#Kyoto #KitanoTenmangu #北野天満宮 #京都 #Japan

One of the best preserved sections of the Odoi (御土居) is at Kitano Tenman-gū (北野天満宮).
Usually out-of-bounds, the Odoi remnant is opened up for visitors during the spring and autumn seasons (for a fee of course).

#Kyoto #京都 #Odoi #御土居 #KitanoTenmangū #北野天満宮 #Japan

One of Kitano Tenman-gū's (北野天満宮) famed 'stroking cows' (撫牛 'nade-ushi') watches over a hana-chōzu' (花手水).

Even the smallest Tenman-gū shrine will usually have an ox statue somewhere in its grounds. Most are depicted lying down, in connection with Sugawara-no-Michizane's death (he is deified at the shrine).

The statues are known as 'stroking cows' (撫牛 'nade-ushi'), as people rub them for good luck, intelligence and health.

#KitanoTenmangu #北野天満宮 #Japan #Kyoto #京都 #ox #strokingcows