Well-known to overseas anime and manga fans, miko is the term for the young women that serve the Shinto deities by working in shrines across Japan. Let’s learn more about this fascinating job.
Kameda Shuzo: A 260-Year Old Brewery Producing Sacred Sake (Part 1)
Founded by a Buddhist mountain priest 266 years ago, Kameda Sake Brewery continues its tradition of making sake for the Shinto ceremonies held at Meiji Shrine while diversifying into new fields of liquor production.
Tottori’s Power Spots - Feel The Healing Power Of Nature
Tottori Prefecture is famous for places which are said to have mystical powers such as the Mitokusan Sanbutsuji Nageiredo and Ōgamiyama Shrine Okunomiya. This article introduces their highlights.
We worship kamisama, not ‘gods’. If you have to, ‘deities’ is OK to say but kami are not gods.
It is not okay to combine Shinto with anything other than Buddhism, which it has been historically connected with. If you practice something else, keep it separate.
Do not use Shinto or the kami in your western witchcraft or paganism. Those are very separate. Japanese culture has its own methods of sorcery and such which I will not share here as of now.
It is imperative that you use the appropriate suffixes for kamisama. Post on that upcoming.
It’s “Shinto”, not “Shintoism”. “Shinto practitioner” not “Shintoist”.
Don’t exoticize it. Orientalists GTFO.
Shinto is an open tradition. That said, there are certain rules to follow, and you still must keep in mind that you are an outsider to the culture and need to learn about it. Just because it lacks a doctrine does not make it a free-for-all.
Since I’m going back to Japan this month and the cherry blossom season is about to start, I felt like building a shinto shrine and a food festival around it cause I can’t wait to eat real Japanese food again!
The riders are fully dressed as samurai warriors during the Yabusame Shinji. They wear a costume comprising of a cloak (sokutai), a bracer or arm guard (mukabaki), gloves, fur chaps (mukabaki), shooting shoes (kanokutsu); he carries a long sword (tachi) and short sword (koshigatana), a quiver of arrows (ebira) on his back, and has a bound wisteria bow (shigedō).
The riders are fully dressed as samurai warriors during the Yabusame Shinji. They wear a costume comprising of a cloak (sokutai), a bracer or arm guard (mukabaki), gloves, fur chaps (mukabaki), shooting shoes (kanokutsu); he carries a long sword (tachi) and short sword (koshigatana), a quiver of arrows (ebira) on his back, and has a bound wisteria bow (shigedō).
The riders are fully dressed as samurai warriors during the Yabusame Shinji. They wear a costume comprising of a cloak (sokutai), a bracer or arm guard (mukabaki), gloves, fur chaps (mukabaki), shooting shoes (kanokutsu); he carries a long sword (tachi) and short sword (koshigatana), a quiver of arrows (ebira) on his back, and has a bound wisteria bow (shigedō).
