Goshuincho 2 — Studio Ghibli Spirited Away

Trip context — what's in this book

This book is dominated by a single intense Kyoto pilgrimage spanning 28–29 May 2023:

Day 1 — 28 May 2023 (Higashiyama)

A walking tour of central Higashiyama temples and shrines, plus Sennyū-ji to the south:

1. 高台寺天満宮 — for the 夢 ("dream") goshuin referencing Hideyoshi's death poem
2. 圓徳院 — Lady Nene's residence, special 開運 limited goshuin
3. 八坂神社 — the central Gion shrine
4. 泉涌寺 舎利殿 — Imperial funerary temple, rare Shariden opening
5. 仲源寺 — the small eye-healing temple in Gion
6. (possibly more, on other pages or other books)

This is essentially the "Higashiyama temple route" maxed out to its serious-pilgrim form — most Higashiyama tourists do Yasaka + Kiyomizu + Kōdai-ji and call it a day. The user added Sennyū-ji (a south-Higashiyama imperial temple normally separate) and the small Chūgen-ji.

Day 2 — 29 May 2023 (Mt. Inari)

A full Mt. Inari pilgrimage, top to bottom, including off-trail sub-shrines:

7. 伏見稲荷大社 (本殿) — main shrine at the foot
8. 伏見神宝神社 — off-trail dragon shrine, mid-mountain
9. 伏見稲荷大社 奥社奉拝所 — end of Senbon Torii
10. 明竹稲荷宮 / 腰神不動神社 — off-trail Fudō Myōō for hip/back healing
11. 伏見稲荷大社 御膳谷奉拝所 — high mountain, with the special 登拝 (climbing-worship) stamp
12. 安井金比羅宮 — back in Higashiyama in the evening (or earlier in the day before the climb)

Five Mt. Inari goshuin in one day is an unusually thorough pilgrimage — most visitors get one or two. The 登拝 stamp on Gozendani (entry 09) is the credential that distinguishes a real mountain pilgrim from a torii-tunnel tourist.

Undated — 2023 (Awataguchi)

5. 鍛冶神社 — sword-themed two-page spread with the 一期一振 illustration; only the year (癸卯歳 = 2023) is stamped, no specific day

Notes on confidence scoring

• Name confidence above 95% means the temple seal and the calligraphy both unambiguously identify the shrine, and the design has been cross-referenced with multiple authoritative sources.
• Date confidence reflects how cleanly the day character can be read from the goshuin itself.
  • For the Kaji Jinja two-page spread, the year-only stamp 癸卯歳 makes the precise day unrecoverable from the goshuin (hence 70%).
  • For Chūgen-ji, the day character is partly compressed — most likely 廿八 but the brush strokes don't fully resolve.
• Identifying the variant of a goshuin (e.g. Meyami Jizō vs. Daihiden at Chūgen-ji, or 開運 vs. 安寧 vs. 豊福 at Entoku-in) is treated separately from the temple identification — see individual analyses for variant-specific confidence.

Notable items in this book

• 明治神宮-style imperial-year stamping is absent here (that was Book 1) — Book 2 doesn't have any imperial shrines. All Reiwa-era dates only.
• Two stamps use specialized vocabulary at the top instead of the standard 奉拝:
  • 登拝 (Tōhai) at Gozendani (entry 09) — climbing-worship, certifies a mountain pilgrimage
  • All others use 奉拝 (Hōhai) — the standard
• Two stamps use historical / alternate names instead of the modern shrine name:
  • 祇園社 at Yasaka (entry 03) — pre-Meiji shrine name
  • 明竹稲荷宮 / 腰神不動神社 at the dual-name sub-shrine (entry 11) — both Shinto and Buddhist identities
• One stamp is a two-page spread (entry 05, Kaji Jinja's Ichigo Hitofuri sword goshuin) — the katana illustration spans both leaves of the open book
• One stamp is a special limited edition (entry 02, Entoku-in's 7-color 開運 goshuin) — likely from the Lady Nene 400-year memorial cycle (2022–2024)

The Studio Ghibli cover is incidental — the book itself reflects mainstream goshuin practice with no Ghibli-themed special goshuin received.