Look, everyone! This is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It’s eating me alive, and very soon now it will kill me! Fear and anger only make it grow faster!
One of the main characters in Sailor Moon is Sailor Mars, also known as Rei Hino, who’s a schoolgirl and a Shinto
princess at Hikawa
Jinja. The manga shrine was
modelled on a real shrine called Hikawa Jinja (氷川神社) in Azabu-Jūban; the
anime shrine was modelled on another Hikawa Jinja in Akasaka. Both are branch
shrines of the main Hikawa
Jinja in Ōmiya, Saitama.
The shrine
is written 火川 in the manga, but it's 氷川 in real life. Interesting difference: 火 is fire, 氷 is ice, both can be pronounced hi. The kanji 川, kawa, is
river. Sailor Mars’s element is fire, which could explain that change. Here’s a comparison of the real shrine’s entrance and the anime shrine’s entrance:
Let’s go for a visit to Hikawa
Jinja in Akasaka. This is what it looks like:
