Chihayafuru
Yuki Suetsugu's josei manga and its Madhouse anime (2011) follow Chihaya Ayase and her obsession with competitive karuta, the card game based on the hundred poems of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Ōmi Jingū shrine in Ōtsu, the real venue of the national karuta championships, is the heart of the series.
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Ōmi Jingū Shrinethe karuta championships
The shrine dedicated to Emperor Tenji, author of the first poem of the Hyakunin Isshu, is the real venue of the national karuta championships and appears again and again in the series. The finals the leads chase are played here.
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Ōmi Jingū Rōmon Gatethe opening's gate
The great vermilion tower gate at the top of the stone stairway is the series' iconic image: it appears in the opening and in countless shots of the grounds. (Approximate coordinate within the shrine.)
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Ōmi-Jingū-mae Stationarriving at the shrine
The small Keihan Ishiyama-Sakamoto line station where the characters arrive for the shrine, about ten minutes on foot from the stairway.