Skill & Mastery
Places associated with skill and mastery in a discipline.
Improvement in a skill is its own category of devotion in Japan, separate from career and from study. Performers pray to Ame-no-Uzume, shogi players dedicate tablets at a hall built with their own association, and archery once had guardian shrines of its own. The places tagged here state that devotion about themselves, and each page names the discipline.
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ShrineAna Hachimangu
- Fertility & Children
- Money & Prosperity
- Skill & Mastery
A Waseda shrine named for a cave found in its hillside in 1641, which gives out an amulet for the circulation of money for six weeks each winter and nothing the rest of the year.
ShrineKarasumori Shrine
- Career & Work
- Money & Prosperity
- Skill & Mastery
A Shimbashi shrine down an alley, founded in 940 by the general who defeated Taira no Masakado, and one of the few to enshrine the deity of the performing arts.
ShrineHatonomori Hachiman Shrine
- Skill & Mastery
A Sendagaya shrine named after a flight of white doves, holding a Fuji mound raised in 1789 and a small hexagonal hall built with the Japan Shogi Association.