On October 26 the International Shinto Foundation is running a seminar and discussion to mark the completion of the shikinen sengu (fixed term renewal) of Ise (20 year cycle) and Izumo (60 year cycle). The event which will take place … Read the rest
Category: Ise (Page 4 of 5)
The climax of the 20 year cycle at Ise took place last night at 8 in the evening, and the event has been featured widely on the television news. The programme I watched had views of the torchlight moving … Read the rest
Thanks to reader, Peter Grilli, Green Shinto can confirm the dates of the “Sengyosai” or ritual transfer of sacred objects from the old shrine buildings at Ise. It is the climax of the rituals of renewal known as Shikinen … Read the rest
2013 is going to be the year of the Shikinen Sengu (rebuilding) at the country’s premier shrines of Ise and Izumo. By coincidence, both major shrines are due to complete their rebuilding this year amidst rites and celebrations. My … Read the rest
Ise donates cypress logs to fix Tohoku shrines (Japan Times, 1/12)
“Hinoki” cypress from Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture will be used to rebuild Shinto shrines damaged during the deadly March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, whose monster tsunami devastated … Read the rest
The end of the world appears not to have taken place after all, as Mayan freaks suggested, but symbolically with the winter solstice today the death of nature is taking place. So commiserations and congratulations are in order. The king … Read the rest
‘What Used to be Called Shinto’ runs the provocative title of a paper by academic Mark Teeuwen (in Japan Emerging, ed. Karl Friday, 2012). In clear and systematic fashion, he questions the notion of Shinto as ‘Japan’s indigenous religion’ … Read the rest