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KagawaShrines & TemplesThe approach runs 785 steps to the main shrine and 1,368 to the inner one. In the Edo period, when free travel was difficult, a Konpira pilgrimage was, like a visit to Ise, an accepted pretext for a journey. There was even the konpira-inu: if you could not go yourself, you sent a dog with an offering and a tag tied to it. The wish to travel borrowed the form of faith.
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KagawaShrines & TemplesFirst shrine of Sanuki Province. A dragon is said to live in the bottomless pool in its grounds, and looking into it was held to bring a curse.
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KagawaShrines & TemplesA huge sand drawing in the shape of a Kanei-tsuho coin. Seeing it is said to keep you from want of money.
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KagawaShrines & TemplesThe tomb of the retired Emperor Sutoku is here. The setting of a tale in Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari.
KagawaShrines & TemplesThe foundation stones from its founding survive, so the size of the old precinct can be read on the ground.
KagawaShrines & TemplesPut your head into the stone shrine, they say, and you will hear the cauldrons of hell.
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KagawaShrines & TemplesIts main hall is a National Treasure. One of the few Shikoku temples with a five-storey pagoda.
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