Considering this is the “read the kanji” thread and not the “identify the goshuin” thread, I’d thought I’d actually try reading the kanji on these. Plus, now we’ve got some seal script reading practice under our belts…
Some of the characters are Siddham - I’ve marked those with (s). I’m hoping I’ve marked correctly, and haven’t simply just decided everything I’m struggling to read is Siddham…
One more quick note: 卄 or 廿 is 二十 for lazy people in cursive, while 卅 or 丗 is 三十
Summary
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 奉拝 平成丗年九月十九日 (s)千手尊 ふくおか大仏 東長寺 |
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| Seals | 密教東漸最初霊場 (s) 別格本山東長密寺印 |
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| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 奉拝 厳島神社 平成三十年九月二十二日 |
広島護国神社 平成三十年九月二十一日 |
| Seals | 厳島？神社 | 鯉城跡鎮座 広島護国神社 |
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 奉拝 平成卅年九月廿二日 波切不動明王 大本山大聖院 |
薬師如来像 平成三十年九月二十二日 奉拝 |
| Seals | 明治天皇行在遺跡 (s) 真言宗大本山大聖院 |
日本 三辯天 厳島辯財天 大願寺印 |
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 平成三十年九月廿二日 奉拝 (s)福聚海 三瀧寺 |
奉拝 平成卅年九月卄二日 虚空蔵菩薩 弥山本堂 |
| Seals | 中国三十番 安藝國三瀧寺 |
弘法大師御開基 (s) 宮島弥山 |
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 射楯兵主神社 平成三十年九月二十四日 |
祈 安寧 兵庫縣姫路 護國神社 平成三十年九月二十四日 |
| Seals | 奉拝 播磨之國総社 |
明治維新百五十年 姫路護國神社 護國神社 |
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 奉拝 平成三十年九月二十七日 南園堂 興福寺 |
奉拝 平成三十年九月二十六日 大悲殿 蓮華王院 |
| Seals | 世界文化遺産 (s) ？？興福寺印 |
落陽十七番 蓮華王院 三十三間堂 |
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 奉拝 氷室大神 平成卅年九月廿七日 |
奉拝 平成三十年九月二十七日 令興福力 興福寺 |
| Seals | 東山鎮守 平城氷室 氷室社務處印 |
世界文化遺産 (s) ？？興福寺印 |
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 奉拝 金龍神社 平成三十年九月二十七日 |
奉拝 春日大社 平成三十年九月二十七日 |
| Seals | 金龍神社 | 春日大社 平成三十年 御創建千二百五十年 |
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 奉拝 平成三十年九月二十八日 舎利殿 金閣寺 |
奉拝 平成三十年九月二十七日 華厳 東大寺 |
| Seals | 世界文化遺産 鹿苑禪寺 金閣 |
東大寺大佛殿 |
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 奉拝 大黒天 平成三十年十月六日 |
奉拝 平成卅年十月三日 医王殿 飛騨国分寺 |
| Seals | 浅草名所七福神 米櫃 大黒天 浅草寺印 |
聖武天皇勅願寺 (s) 中部四十九 薬師霊場第四十一番 飛騨國分寺 |
| Goshuin | ||
| Calligraphy | 奉拝 明治神宮 平成三十いち年四月十日 |
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| Seals | 皇紀二千六百七十九年 明治神宮 |
Stuff I’m still unsure of:
- Itsukushima Shrine, I can’t find an example of this with the centre seal unobscured enough to actually read it.
- For both of the Kofuku-ji ones, the first two kanji in the lower-left seal look like they should be easy, but I can’t work them out at all - the second, for example, appears to be 米＋日＋口＋已, but no such kanji exists in Japanese or Chinese, or even similar kanji with just two of those components. I’m also not too sure about my claim that the last kanji is 印 either.
I’m really not confident about the lower-left seal for Himuro Shrine.- Kinryu Shrine, I honestly think the seal with the two dragons is a kanji, but I wouldn’t have the foggiest idea of what that might be. Maybe 龍.
- Todai-ji, not completely confident that the calligraphy down the left side is 東大寺.
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Senso-ji, can’t quite make out the second kanji in the central seal, but I suspect it’s archaic. Not completely confident what day of the month you visited either. Also,I literally just worked out that “Senso” is “Asakusa” in on’yomi, and I think it broke my brain a little bit. Hida-Kokubun-ji, not the slightest clue what the big calligraphy reads.
Thanks to @ShinobuSagi for kanji suggestions.