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To help me answer my curiosity, I asked my local Shinto expert and naturalized Japanese, David Chart. Life Where I'm From Posted: December 26, 2024 | Last updated: December 26, 2024 ...

Surrounded by the vast Pacific Ocean, Japan’s Ise-Shima region is a place where ancient traditions, spirituality and the ...

FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture--Park rangers on Japan's sacred Mount Fuji officially started this year's climbing season about 90 minutes before sunrise on Monday, levying new trail fees and ...

The Japanese Shinto religion is expressed to have “eight million gods”, or an abundance of gods too diverse to count. Today, Japanese spirituality is a melding of myriad cultures in a uniquely ...

Faithfuls and tourists gathered around a pool at the Ise Jingu shrine to cleanse themselves by washing their hands and rinsing their mouths before proceeding to make prayers to goddess Omikami.

Dr Amanda Foreman discusses how Shinto merged with Buddhism in Japan and makes particular reference to the centrality of women within Shinto beliefs. Not only are women able to take practical ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

Fuji filmed in 1949, with Shinto priests conducting a purification ceremony. Japan's highest mountain ... asleep from exhaustion on the mountain trails, or seeking warmth in the mountain hut ...

Because crowds are drawn to their picturesque beauty, Fushimi Inari's trails can get quite ... temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine).