Kamigamo Shrine

This guide to Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto opens with Tamayorihime, a priest's daughter who finds a red arrow drifting in a river and takes it home, and the son she cannot explain who is born soon after. It follows his growth into a thunder god and the strange test his grandfather set him at a feast, then turns to the twin cones of pale sand that still rise before the inner hall, said to carry a little of his protection home with you.