Regular readers of this blog will know that our local shrine is the World Heritage site of Shimogamo Jinja in Kyoto. Over the more than thirty years I have … Read the rest
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Alena Yushu Eckelmann – ‘Kii Monogatari‘
1) You are a guide in Wakayama Prefecture which contains the UNESCO World Heritage trails of Kumano Kodo. How long have you been there, and how … Read the rest
Shingu Town in the Kumano region is well worth visiting, not the least because it is home to the splendid Hayatama Shrine, one of the three Kumano Great Shrines. Even more … Read the rest
Green Shinto readers will know that … Read the rest
Burial mounds for emperors set to gain World Heritage listing
By MAYUMI UEDA/ May 14, 2019 Asahi Shimbun
UNESCO signaled its readiness May 13 to grant World Heritage status to a cluster of “kofun” burial mounds in Osaka Prefecture dating
The Amami islands lie between Kyushu and Okinawa. Though technically they belong to Kagoshima Prefecture, they have more of the feel of Okinawa. There are five inhabited islands in the archipelago, of which Amami Oshima is the biggest. Total population … Read the rest
The scholar Takagi Hiroshi writes that: “After the Meiji Restoration, an idea of the everlasting and unbroken single line of emperors was created, and at the same time, closely related to that idea, imperial mausoleums were invented anew. The latter … Read the rest