You often find shrines in Japan presiding over hot springs. Why? Clearly there are few places as awe-inspiring in terms of nature’s magnificence than places where steam continually issues forth from underground. Few places are more evocative of nature’s blessings, … Read the rest
Category: Shrine visits (Page 6 of 21)
Every year Green Shinto likes to visit our local shrine of Shimogamo Jinja, here in Kyoto. It’s a World Heritage shrine known for its green surrounds featuring streams running through the Tadasu no mori wood. Every year the shrine seems … Read the rest
Shrines and temples offer contact with Japan’s superb folk spirituality (by Kevin Short)
By Kevin Short / Special to The Japan News
As readers of this column know all too well, I am a great fan and
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2017 rings in across Japan as shrine, temple throngs pray
Kasuga Taisha in Nara, one of the country’s foremost shrines, is having its twenty-year renewal at the moment, and since the four honden are being rebuilt and repainted, the kami have been taken out to temporary quarters. It means that … Read the rest
It’s some time since I made an excursion to a new shrine, so I was intrigued to see what Hattori Tenjingu on the edge of Osaka had to offer. A surprising amount, was the answer. Packed into the small confines … Read the rest
Keeping an eye on the north east
by Jann Williams (photos supplied by Jann)
On June 11th 2016 the International Shinto Studies Association (ISSA) held its second fieldwork program. The afternoon program, which visited Sudo Shrine and Sekizan Zen’in … Read the rest