ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so ...
The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present ...
At Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine, it’s not unusual for visitors to catch a glimpse of a traditional wedding, the couple led in procession by Shinto priests under a large red umbrella. Located within the ...
ISE, Japan -- Lanterns and flaming torches emerge from the darkness as a robed priestess walks below centuries-old pine trees. Rows of solemn priests follow her up a long stone staircase, carrying a ...
ISE, JAPAN - Lanterns and flaming torches emerge from the darkness as a robed priestess walks below centuries-old pine trees. Rows of solemn priests follow her up a long stone staircase, carrying a ...
KRYSTLE MARCELLUS / [email protected] Carpenter Brian Schatz of Schatz Construction in Kailua installed a ridge line at the Wakamiya Inari Shrine in the Hawaiian Plantation Village on ...
This article analyzes contemporary Shinto ideology in the light of recent theories on the formation of the category "secular" and on secularization. Drawing on Charles Taylor's discussion of the ...
ISE, Japan — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that ...
People pull a sacred timber into the Ise Jingu shrine complex, as others follow during Mihishirogi Hoeishiki, a ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual to rebuild its main structures for Shinto deities, ...
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