With the Head Priest of Nagoya's Ueno Tenmangu Shrine for my weekly TV Aichi program, Sanji No Tsubo. Ueno Tenmangu Shrine is rumored to have Gulliver's cow....
..And here it is, a large bronze statue of a cow, surrounded by a multitude of multicolored midget Munchkins! Not quite Gulliver's cow, but surrounded by Lilliputlians, I guess it comes close. A shrine bovine....what could you say in such a situation but,...HOLY COW!
Turns out they weren't REAL munchkins, but small dolls made in the form of a Japanese deity, male and female in 5 color variations, left by the shrine visitors.... There were thousands of the little blighters all over the shrine grounds!
Inside the dolls were fortune papers. You pay your 300 yen (About $3) and choose a doll from the box. Your fortune is written on the paper folded up inside. Luckily, mine said good fortune!Hope it comes soon!
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