Something to look forward in the New Year when the pandemic is over – a chance to be a miko
- Casey Baseel Japan Today Dec 20, 2017
Chief priest cites popularity of miko heroine in anime hit Your Name for … Read the rest
Category: Anime and manga (Page 1 of 2)
The Seven Lucky Gods are one of the most notable features of folk religion in Japan, spanning the artificial divide between Shinto and Buddhism. The most appealing of the seven for those … Read the rest
Suwa Taisha is one of the country’s oldest shrines and well worth a visit for anyone near Nagano Prefecture. Green Shinto has covered the shrine before (click here for a fully illustrated account). This time … Read the rest
Oceans, Forests, and Kami: Environment, Location, and Spirituality in Miyazaki’s Films By Anna Blagrove, University of East Anglia PhD Researcher
(The following is the outline of a longer paper which … Read the rest
Jolyon B. Thomas in a review of Shinto books for H-Japan notes the amazing upturn in scholarly and popular interest in Shinto during recent decades. I remember when I first came to Japan, there was one solitary book available in … Read the rest
Japanese folklore meets anime in Kyoto
by Roland Kelts Japan Times Jan
An advertisement for a shrine maiden to help with disposal of anime figures shows Shinto’s flexibility and ability to adopt. The Rocket News article below couches it in typical slanted fashion as something weird and exotic, but it’s part of … Read the rest