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The Hakone Shrine (箱根神社, Hakone Jinja) is a Japanese Shinto shrine on the shores of Lake Ashi in the town of Hakone in the Ashigarashimo District of Kanagawa Prefecture. [1] It is also known as the Hakone Gongen ( 箱根権現 ) .
Hakone Town Hall Mount Fuji from Mount Kami in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Hakone (箱根町, Hakone-machi) is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 1 October 2023, the town had a population of 10,965, [1] [2] and total area of 92.82 km 2 (35.84 sq mi).
Legends of the Hakone Gongen, colour on paper 紙本著色箱根権現縁起 shihon chakushoku Hakone Gongen engi: Nanboku-chō period: Hakone: Hakone Jinja: one emakimono: Kikō Zenji, ink on paper 紙本墨画喜江禅師像
Kuzuryū (九頭龍, nine-headed dragon), or Kuzuryūshin (九頭龍神, nine-headed dragon god) is a deity that appears in folklore and legends of various parts of Japan, including, for example, Hakone , Nagano Prefecture and Fukui Prefecture. In many cases, the Kuzuryū is associated with water.
Gongen shinkō (権現信仰) is the term for belief in the existence of gongen. [3] The gongen concept is the cornerstone of the honji suijaku theory, according to which Buddhist deities choose to appear to the Japanese as native kami in order to save them, which is based on the Mahayana Buddhist notion of upaya, "expedient means".
Mount Kami (Japanese: 神山 Kami-yama, meaning "god mountain") is the highest peak, with an elevation of 1,438 meters, of Mount Hakone, in Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. [1] Worshipping Mount Hakone with this highest peak is recorded in a 12th century document, as having started at the time of the legendary Emperor Kōshō (475 BC to 393 BC).
Rokudō Jizō; photograph by Adolfo Farsari. The Moto-Hakone Stone Buddhas (元箱根石仏群, Moto-Hakone sekibutsu) is a grouping of stone sculptures and associated tō (stone pagodas), dating from the late Kamakura period and located in the former village of Moto-Hakone, now merged into the town of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Hakone Park (Japanese: 恩賜箱根公園 = Onshi Hakone Koen, meaning Royally Given Hakone Park) is a prefectural park, located in Hakone Town, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It occupies the 15.9 hectare Tōgshima peninsula jotting out to Lake Ashi .