If Shinto is a religion of awe, as Joseph Campbell said, then it is not surprising that the hot springs and volcanic activity in Japan should have inspired an acute awareness of the power of nature. Bubbling waters of 100C … Read the rest
Category: Green issues (Page 4 of 16)
News comes of an exciting double book launch featuring two books Green Shinto has been keenly anticipating, presented by three progressive thinkers on Shinto matters. This comes courtesy of the Bloomsbury Shinto series, an exciting venture publicising scholarly books about … Read the rest
Green Shinto supporter, Ray Barnett, runs a lively blog in which he writes from a Taoist viewpoint of mankind’s relationship with nature. He has also published Earth Wisdom and other books on the subject. In this specially penned piece he
Kokugakuin University, which specialises in Shinto studies, produces articles in association with the Japan News. This one, updated on Dec 3, 2017, features the role of horses and horse-riding skills in Shinto. (For a description of horse archery … Read the rest
Some inspiring thoughts from Brain Pickings about the wonder of trees. As one of the most awe-inspiring phenomena of nature, it’s small wonder that they feature so prominently at Shinto shrines. The sacred forests there speak to our hearts and … Read the rest
Jobs battle environment on sacred but scarred Mount Buko
BY ALEX MARTIN. NOV 21, 2017 Japan
Minakata Kumagusu (1867-1941) was an idiosyncratic naturalist, whose pioneering research brought him high prestige though he never completed a degree. He lived abroad in the US and the UK in early Meiji times, then returned to Japan and became an … Read the rest