Question Is it worth having a golden goshuincho (金の御朱印帳)?

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There are ones that are published in gold (as in all the pages within the stamp book including the cover), like literally the entire thing.
 

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It's more valuable, I think, to the pilgrim who carried it around and got it stamped along the way. It represents a lot of effort and energy, quite literally. But as a collectible? Hard to put a monetary value on it. Ironically, the name of the shrine where those stamps originated is Kanemochi shrine, in Tottori.


In 810, the second son of a Shinto priest from Izumo was passing through this area on his way to worship at Ise Shrine when the jade stone netsuke he was wearing as a talisman suddenly became heavy. It is said that he had a divine dream that called for him to build a shrine here, and so he did so.

Kanemochi-go was once a production area for "tamahagane," a steel that was said to be better than gold. The area possessed many valleys where the raw material, iron sand , was mined, and as the character for metal fittings indicates, iron (tetsu) was read as "kane" (gold), so it is said that the area came to be called "Kanemochi," meaning a place with many valleys where gold could be mined.
 
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