May brings a flurry of festivities in the Shinto calendar, and Kyoto kicks off the month with several colourful events, including the Aoi Festival preliminaries (the grand parade takes place on the 15th). This year the sunshine was in … Read the rest
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Extract from the Kokugakuin Encyclopedia of Shinto, written by Takayama Shigeru…
In China, there existed from before the Former Han dynasty (202 B.C.E.–8 C.E.) a kind of wrestling resembling sumō that belonged to the miscellaneous arts of … Read the rest
The time for horse-riding events is coming up in Kyoto, with festivals at Shimogamo Shrine on May 3 and Kamigamo on May 5. The famed Yabusame horse archery (May 3) is just one of several horse-related events that take … Read the rest
Ted Taylor has kindly written in to point out an exceptional video made available by Empty Mind films, who produce high-quality films of Asian spirituality. Their stunning youtube video is just 3.38 minutes long. Here is the company’s introduction to … Read the rest
Yesterday there was a sumo ceremony at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo watched by 3000 people to celebrate the award of the top rank of yokozuna to the Mongolian wrestler, Harumafuji. The award means that the two top-ranking sumo wrestlers … Read the rest
I’ve never been drawn to martial arts, but intrigued by the Shinto connections of aikido I decided yesterday to go along to a talk put on by the Kyoto Prefectural International Center. It could be argued that the spread of … Read the rest
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