In Japan we pray for a safe delivery on the day of the dog in the fifth month of pregnancy. What what whaaaaaat???? The day of dog?

There are many shrines, but each shrine enshrines a different God.

For example an Inari shrine like the famous Husimi Inari enshrines a fox.

We write Inari in Kanji as 稲荷.

So Inari Shrines are built to pray for a good harvest, and foxes prey on grain eating mice.

Suitengu 水天宮 is a shrine that pays homage to water, which is flushed from the body during childbirth for a smooth delivery. Suitengu is famous for safe childbirth and enshrines a dog.

therefore dogs are a symbol for an easy delivery.

Japan has 12 zodiac signs, as you know, and we also use them for days.

Nowadays they are rarely used except to pray for safe childbirth and so on.

So I don’t know the details, but there are 60 combinations with other things.

Don’t ask me what they are though.

Anyway… May 16th was the day of the dog and my daughter is 5months pregnant now so we went Suitengu to pray for a safe birth.

On top of that, that day was a “Taian” 大安 day known as rokuyo.

The Japanese calendar is so complicated!!!

For this reason it was extremely crowded.

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