Goshuincho 3 — Hello Kitty × Tōgō Jinja
This goshuincho is a Hello Kitty (Sanrio) × 東郷神社 (Tōgō Jinja) collaboration goshuincho. The front cover features Hello Kitty in a jūni-hitoe (twelve-layered Heian court robe) holding a fan, with a flower in her hair — surrounded by a brocade pattern of flowers and waves. The back cover features the same motifs with the shrine name 「原宿東郷神社」 (Harajuku Tōgō Jinja) woven into the cloth in colored thread, plus the HelloKitty © '76, '20 SANRIO copyright notice. The book contains 18 goshuin spanning three trips across two years: - Trip 1 — late May 2023 (Tokyo): 4 goshuin (entries 01–04) - Trip 2a — early May 2024 (Setagaya/Tokyo, Greenery Day): 1 goshuin (entry 06) - Trip 2b — mid-May 2024 (Setagaya + Yamanashi): 4 goshuin (entries 05, 08, 09, 10) - Trip 3 — 20 May 2024 (Tokyo Asakusa pilgrimage day): 8 goshuin (entries 07, 11–18)
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#18Trip context — what's in this book
Trip 1 — late May 2023 (Tokyo)
26 May 2023: Hanazono Jinja (Shinjuku) — kirie goshuin 27 May 2023: Tōgō Jinja (Harajuku) — both standard and Year-of-the-Rabbit Z-flag limited variants, on the 118th anniversary of when Adm. Tōgō raised the Z flag at the Battle of Tsushima. The Hello Kitty + anchor stamp added because this is the official Sanrio collaboration goshuincho. Sometime in May 2023: Kanda Myōjin during the Kanda Matsuri (which ran 11–17 May), with the 150-year Sukunahikona commemorative goshuin design.
Trip 2 — May 2024 (multi-stop)
4 May 2024: Taishidō Hachiman Jinja in Setagaya — Greenery Day limited. (Greenery Day is a Japanese national holiday on 4 May.) 14 May 2024: Setagaya day — Gōtoku-ji (the maneki-neko temple, rival to Imado Jinja) and Setagaya Hachimangū (sumo shrine), both within walking distance. 16 May 2024: Yamanashi day — Mt. Fuji area in Fujiyoshida, visiting Arakura Fuji Sengen (the famous Chūreitō-pagoda-and-Mt-Fuji photo spot) and Omuro Sengen (the heart-shaped enmusubi shrine).
Trip 3 — 20 May 2024 (Asakusa pilgrimage day)
A single ambitious day in Tokyo Taitō Ward, traversing the Asakusa Meisho Shichifukujin pilgrimage circuit and adjacent shrines/temples. Eight goshuin in one day:
- Asakusa cluster: Asakusa Jinja (standard + Ebisu), Hikan Inari, Sensō-ji (standard + Daikokuten), Yasaki Inari (Fukurokuju)
- Mid-route: Akiba Jinja (Boys' Day limited, fire-prevention deity), Ryūei Inari (within Shitaya Jinja)
- Kanda end: Kanda Myōjin (Year of Dragon standard goshuin)
This is the most goshuin in any single day across the entire 3-book collection.
Notable items in this book
Three "lucky god" pilgrimage credits
The book brings the user's Asakusa Meisho Shichifukujin (浅草名所七福神) pilgrimage tally to 4 of 9 stations across the goshuin collection:
- 浅草神社 — 恵比須 (Ebisu) — entry 13 (this book)
- 浅草寺 — 大黒天 (Daikokuten) — entry 15 (this book)
- 矢先稲荷神社 — 福禄寿 (Fukurokuju) #2 — entry 16 (this book)
- 今戸神社 — 福禄寿 (Fukurokuju) #1 — Book 1 entry 03 (May 2023)
Two zodiac-year limited goshuin
- 2023 Year of the Rabbit — Tōgō Jinja with rabbits holding Z signal flags (entry 04)
- 2024 Year of the Dragon — Kanda Myōjin with red dragon stamp (entry 18)
Three kirie (paper-cutout) goshuin
- 花園神社 (Shinjuku, May 2023) — entry 03
- 新倉富士浅間神社 (Yamanashi, May 2024) — entry 10
- These are the only two-page kirie spreads in this book; both are part of the wave of elaborate paper-cut goshuin that took off in Japanese shrines around 2021–2022.
Two seasonal/festival limited goshuin
- 神田神社 — Sukunahikona 150-year Kanda Matsuri commemorative (entry 02)
- 太子堂八幡神社 — Greenery Day / みどりの月 limited (entry 06)
- 秋葉神社 — Tango no Sekku / Boys' Day limited (entry 07)
Two maneki-neko-origin shrines
The user has now visited both claimants to the maneki-neko's origin:
- Imado Jinja (Asakusa) — Book 1 entry 03, 25 May 2023
- Gōtoku-ji (Setagaya) — Book 3 entry 05, 14 May 2024
Hello Kitty's anchor stamp
The Hello Kitty bow with anchor in entries 01 and 04 is only added when receiving a goshuin in the official Tōgō Jinja Sanrio book. This stamp is not available for goshuin written into other goshuincho. It is exclusive to this book and binds Tōgō Jinja-related goshuin together as a coherent set.
Notes on confidence scoring
- Name confidence above 95%: temple/shrine seal, central calligraphy, and supplementary marks all unambiguously match documented goshuin from authoritative sources (official site, goshuin guides, photo galleries).
- Date confidence reflects how cleanly the day character can be read.
- Entry 02 (Kanda Myōjin festival 2023) is dated May 2023 with no day — the festival-period goshuin only stamps the month. Confidence reflects month, not specific day.
- Entry 09 (Omuro Sengen) — confidence in temple identification is lower (78%) because the central calligraphy is in a deliberately abstract artistic brush style. Identification rests on contextual signals (heart motifs + matchmaking text + same-day-as-Arakura-Fuji + matching layout to documented Omuro Sengen heart goshuin).
- Entry 10 (Arakura Fuji Sengen) — date confidence is 88% because the gold brush on dark indigo paper is slightly less crisp than standard goshuin; reading is consistent with same-day Yamanashi visit.
- Variant confidence (e.g. Sensō-ji standard vs. Bandō #13 vs. festival limited) is treated separately from the basic temple identification — see individual analyses.