kamadodono　竃殿

KEY WORD :　architecture / shrines

Sometimes also kamamiya 釜宮. Also read hettsuidono. A building with a hearth or cooking stove. Often a stove may be placed in the mikashigidokoro 御炊所, the place where rice is cooked. This stove, kamado, is used especially for preparing food to be offered to the gods at shrines *jinja 神社. Sometimes the sound of water boiling inside a cauldron is called kamanaki 釜鳴, and fortunes were told based on these sounds. Example: Kasuga Taisha Honsha Kamadodono 春日大社本社竈殿 (1388), Nara.

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