[Date and Time] Monday, June 7, at 10:20～14:45
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha), and Hasedera Temple
[Visitor] A Chinese Malaysian man
[Attendant] 1 KSGG member
[Language] English
The visitor was an unmarried young man who works as an engineer for an IT-related multinational corporation in Kuala Lumpur. To him, it was a whirlwind trip to Japan; after Kamakura, he had planned to go to Hakodate and even Nagasaki only in a week. As he checked on each destination in detail on the websites in advance, he had already known that at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, the Shogun was assassinated by his nephew hiding behind the big ginko tree, but that this big ginko tree fell down in the gale last spring. He had also known that Hasedera Temple had a revolving bookshelf, which, to his regret, was not allowed to revolve them. I’ve never met such a visitor who had even checked on the revolving bookshelf before. Moreover, he had even learned how to pray at shrines and temples. I was very impressed to see him throwing some coins into the offering boxes and giving his prayers at all the shrines and temples he visited.
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha), and Hasedera Temple
[Visitor] A Chinese Malaysian man
[Attendant] 1 KSGG member
[Language] English
The visitor was an unmarried young man who works as an engineer for an IT-related multinational corporation in Kuala Lumpur. To him, it was a whirlwind trip to Japan; after Kamakura, he had planned to go to Hakodate and even Nagasaki only in a week. As he checked on each destination in detail on the websites in advance, he had already known that at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, the Shogun was assassinated by his nephew hiding behind the big ginko tree, but that this big ginko tree fell down in the gale last spring. He had also known that Hasedera Temple had a revolving bookshelf, which, to his regret, was not allowed to revolve them. I’ve never met such a visitor who had even checked on the revolving bookshelf before. Moreover, he had even learned how to pray at shrines and temples. I was very impressed to see him throwing some coins into the offering boxes and giving his prayers at all the shrines and temples he visited.