KYOTO (TR) – Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, situated in Kyoto City’s Fushimi Ward, is known for its mystical entrance of bamboo bushes.
Known because the “Senbon Torii,” it’s a tunnel-like formation of gates. It’s a well-liked mountain climbing spot that’s at all times bustling with common with each home and worldwide vacationers. However, a significant issue is at present occurring: individuals are vandalizing the bamboo with grafitti, reviews Nippon News Network (Jan. 8).
The graffiti is usually lettering, kanji characters and numbers that seem to have been carved with sharp, laborious objects. Once broken, bamboo won’t regenerate by itself. As a consequence, the town determined to chop down among the bushes because of the threat of collapse.
Fushimi’s bamboo grove is privately owned, and its proprietor is outraged.
According to Akira Nakamura, the 79-year-old proprietor of the bamboo grove, not less than 100 bushes have been broken. “I never thought there’d be this many. It’s a real problem, a moral issue,” says Nakamura.
Although a fence has been put in across the bamboo grove, among the culprits climbed over the partition.
“Engraved in our hearts”
Much of the mountainous land surrounding Fushimi Inari Shrine is privately owned, making it tough to uniformly implement measures, together with repairs and signage set up.
Nakamura goes on, “Sometimes people enter and write graffiti. I wish they’d stop doing that.”
It is not only in Fushimi. Approximately 350 bamboo bushes had been broken in an analogous method alongside a bamboo grove path in Arashiyama.
“I want memories to be engraved in our hearts, not in the bamboo,” Nakamura says.