The following is adapted from a Japan Times article, which can be accessed here, written by Alex K.T. Martin and dated March 20, 2021. It shows how the crisis is hitting the revenue of both shrines and temples, and … Read the rest
Category: Priests (Page 1 of 3)
4) Could you tell us something about your shrine Kamunabi-Ban’yu Ko-shinto Shrine? Also what is the relation to the Ama-no-iwakura Jingu?
Kamunabi Banyu Ko-Shinto Shrine by the ancient Himorogi style since prehistoric Jōmon period enshrines the sacred forest, rocks and … Read the rest
Taishi Kato is a young Shinto priest with an interest in spreading knowledge of the religion to overseas people, and Green Shinto carried an interview with him last year before he went to study for an MA at the School … Read the rest
This is the second part of an interview with the young Austrian, Florian Wiltschko, who in 2007 became the first non-Japanese ever to obtain an official priest’s licence as recognised by Jinja Honcho. (For the first part of this interview, … Read the rest
An article in the Japan Times covers the five foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) priests who are currently known to Green Shinto. Much of the information for the article came from this blog, though the author has made a few mistakes and … Read the rest
This year’s Ted Talks x Kyoto featured an opening session with Suzue, a Shinto priestess at Ono Hachiman shrine. Rather unconventionally (she was born in Brazil), she also has a career as a singer-songwriter with Studio Kotodama, in which guise … Read the rest
Women’s entry into Shinto priesthood is on the rise
BY TAKESHI NISHIDE KYODO MAR 6, 2014
Women are entering another traditional, male-dominated field in Japan — the Shinto priesthood — at a slow but steadily increasing pace. Nobuyo Otagaki, … Read the rest