Friday, July 9, 2010

Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Shrine

Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Jinja, popularly known simply as Zeniarai Benten, is a Shinto shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. In spite of its small size, it is the second most popular spot in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture after Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū. Zeniarai Benzaiten is popular among tourists because the waters of a spring in its cave are said to be able to multiply the money washed in it. The object of worship is a syncretic kami which fuses a traditional spirit called Ugafukujin with the Buddhist goddess of Indian origin Sarasvati, known in Japanese as Benzaiten. The shrine is one of the minority in Japan which still shows the fusion of native religious beliefs and foreign Buddhism (the so-called shinbutsu shūgō) which was normal before the Meiji restoration (end of the 19th century). Zeniarai Benzaiten used to be a external massha of Ōgigayatsu's Yazaka Daijin , but became independent in 1970 under its present name.

[from wikipedia]


This shrine is in Kamakura. Kamakura is famous sightseeing spot near Tokyo.


Entrance of Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Shrine.



You wash your money with the water.
Therefore you will be rich in the future ???


Everybody wash wash wash... for increase their money.




After wash the money, you pray.


You can ride Rickshaw in Kamakura !!
You can walk to this shrine form Kamakura satation in 30 minutes walking.