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

[LTDAN]

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.

 

[NANGI]

Konnichiwa LTDAN -san!

金持神社:Shrine of the Rich

If you believe, you will become rich. The goshuincho is a passport to rich.

Believers shall be saved.

NANGI

 

[Ukigumo]

Oh they're very nice!

 

[nice gaijin]

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.

金持神社札所(売店）

【お知らせ】大雪時の鳥取自動車道・米子自動車道の通行止めによる、県管理国道の通行止めについて 自動車道と国道１８０、１８１、４８２号の通行止め ・大雪時に米子自動車道が通行止めとなった際のう回路として

kanemochi-jinja.net

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.