Hoten Ryu Enten Dojo

Playing with an untethered momiji.

I miss my dear friend featured in this video, Chris Kieber.

Had a short practice at Tsubaki Grand Shrine in Mie Prefecture today with a friend of mine.

Paraphrased from Wikipedia:

The Tsubaki Grand Shrine is a Shinto shrine claiming to be the ichinomiya (1st order shrine) of former Ise Province. One of the kami enshrined at the shrine is Sarutahiko Ōkami (猿田彦大神), leader of the kunitsukami (which are the kami of the land who reside in the earth) and patron of martial arts.

The origins of the shrine are unknown, but legend states that it was founded in the year 3 BCE during the reign of the legendary Emperor Suinin by the order of Princess Yamato on the site of the grave of Sarutahiko. It first appears in historical documentation in an entry dated 748 in the Daianji Garan Engi Nami Rukishizaichō (大安寺伽藍縁起並流記資財帳) records of Daian-ji in Nara. It is listed as a major shrine in the Engishiki records from the early Heian period.

Further according to the shrine's legend, a descendant of Sarutahiko, Gyōman Daimyōjin, was the founder of Shugendō and this shrine was a center of the Shugendō religion in the Heian and Kamakura periods. The current chief priest claims to be the 97th generation descendant of Gyōman Daimyōjin.

The shrine's grounds contain a martial arts hall for practice, as well as an archery range for the practitioners of kyūdō. Behind the main shrine hall is a sacred waterfall, Kinryū Myōjin no Taki, where misogi is practiced.