Otoyo-jinja

I found my favourite shrine at last.

As I could not understand the signs along the Shishigatani canal and was misled once or twice I had given up to find any of the mentioned sites. But something aroused my curiosity and let me follow a side lane up the hill and among the many big Buddhist temples of Higashiyama I found one of the few small Shinto shrines.
I spent a lot of time admiring the way nature is interweaving with the man-built grey granite and vermilion wooden structures of this sacred place.