Sagurijinja 雙栗神社
Above the side panels, squirrels among bunches of grapes, carved in the fifteenth century.
A country shrine in the hamlet of Sayama. The main building, built around 1494, is a 三間社流造 (a three-bay plan with a roof that slopes forward to cover the steps), roofed with cypress bark, and it is a national Important Cultural Property. The interior is divided into a front hall and an inner hall and painted in colour over its entire surface; the decorative carvings are on the 蟇股, the frog-shaped panels between the beams, and above the side panels. The colour you see today comes from the 1980–81 restoration, finished in October. In the grounds grows a camphor tree about thirty metres tall and 5.35 m in circumference, protected by the municipality. Two rites have a date: the 粥占 of 15 January, at midnight exactly, in which a porridge of rice and beans is used to read the year's harvest for eight crops, and the 八朔祭 of 31 August.
Kyoto
Ōkubo, Shinden
