For a few brief days this summer, a sacred shrine and forest in Kyoto, Japan, became a technicolor dreamscape. The Shimogamo shrine, a World Heritage site whose history dates back to the 6th ...

SHIMOGAMO SHRINE: The Kamo Shrines (Kamigamo and Shimogamo) are among the most important in Kyoto. Shimogamo was founded by the Kamo clan (possibly of immigrant origin) and is ranked as one of the ...

Shimogamo Shrine, surrounded by a millennia-old forest growing in Kyoto’s Sakyō Ward, is a must-see on the ancient capital’s tourism circuit. Its numerous architectural and natural ...

The colors were jarring. Beneath the vermillion torii gates of Kyoto's Shimogamo Shrine and surrounded by the olive broadleaves of Tadasu Forest was a pool of furry, bright yellow ponchos ...

This pair of Shintō shrines in Kyoto are the oldest shrines in the old capital. The Shimogamo shrine was situated so as to offer divine protection to the imperial palace to the southwest. Each ...

This was just after the shrine increased the number of officials on patrol within its precincts due to similar damage found two days earlier at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto and Kinpusenji temple in ...

Both Shimogamo Shrine and Kamigamo Shrine host additional rituals that continue the festival’s spiritual focus. Visitors can witness court music, sacred dances and formal offerings performed in ...

Shinto elders at the centuries-old Unesco World Heritage Site of Shimogamo Shrine upset neighbors when they bulldozed a swath of old Kyoto forest to build an apartment complex with units selling ...

According to Shimogamo Shrine, while "yabusame" is known as a samurai event, it originally derived from an event for court nobles, which is why horseback archery is conducted in both court and ...