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札幌の花と、寺社めぐり。
Eighty-seven is a secret word for flower.
8ha
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7na
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花ha·na
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flower 🌸
In Japanese number-play (goroawase): 8 = “ha”, 7 = “na” → hana 花 = flower.
Japanese loves to hide words inside numbers — a playful tradition called goroawase. Read aloud, 8 becomes “ha” and 7 becomes “na”. Together they say ha-na — 花, the word for flower. So e87 simply means flower, written in numbers.
Sapporo, the heart of Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, was chosen to host the Winter Olympics twice — 1940 (cancelled by war) and 1972 (held — Asia’s first Winter Games). As settlers gathered here, temples and shrines took root across the city, and their seasonal festivals live on.
北海道・札幌。冬季五輪の開催地に2度選ばれた街（1940年＝中止／1972年＝アジア初の冬季五輪を開催）。街に根づいた寺院と神社、四季の祭事をご案内します。
北海道神宮: Immanuelle / CC BY 4.0 · 札幌まつり: MIKI Yoshihito / CC BY 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons
Hanachōzu — seasonal flowers set afloat on the purification basin (chōzuya) of a temple or shrine. It is where the two worlds of this site quietly meet: flowers, and the sacred. 花手水（はなちょうず）＝手水舎に花を浮かべる、季節のしつらえ。花と社寺が出会う場所です。
Photos ／ 写真：e87
花と社寺をめぐる読みもの。作法から季節の特集まで。
Guides and seasonal features on flowers, faith and the year of the north.
手水舎に浮かぶ季節の花。その由来・作法・四季の花と、札幌でめぐる花手水。
Hanachōzu — flowers on sacred water
参拝の証の墨書と朱印。いただき方の作法・見方と、札幌でめぐる御朱印。
Goshuinchō — a book of your pilgrimage
初詣、雪化粧の社殿、氷の花手水。白に沈む札幌の社寺を訪ねて。
Snow & the sacred
春の桜、夏の例祭、秋の紅葉、冬の雪。花と景色と社寺のうつろい。
The four seasons of Sapporo
Temples & shrines plotted on the map of Sapporo. Filter annual festivals by month, zoom, search, and sync with the list.
寺社 行事マップ
Browse by sect, ward, type, or keyword. Festival dates with sources, and CSV export.
寺社 一覧