Ikutama Shrine

It is called «Ikutamasan» and is popular among local people.
Torii, that is a gate of shrine is very outstanding! A sigh board showed that evil spirits are driven out of your car. I’m surprised that this shrine also drive away evil spirits from cars in the same way as Naritasan Fudouson does.
Anyway I crossed under the big gate and walked around the shrine. In the precincts there are many shrines for Yodogimi or a deity of women, bellows or a guardian deity of the hardware industry, a deity of construction and Joruri or a deity of show business.
Near the shrine for a deity of women, there is a fortune-​telling stand. Its name is «Gakkepuchi Uranai» (Gakkepuchi means «an edge of a precipice», Uranai «fortune-​telling»). I burst into laughter when I read its name. Regrettably on that day the fortune-​teller was absent.
There was a stone figure of Ihara Saikaku, a famous Joruri writer or poet called Haikai during the Edo period. I made a bow for him to show my respect.
I prayed various things in this shrine, because there a lot of deities in it.