Today was another long, happy, day. We went to Harajuku to check out Takeshita St, the Harry Potter store, and, most importantly, the Meiji-Jingu Shrine. I'm not even Shinto, but this place is a religious

🥦Mizuo's Travel Blog🥦No.32 - Kyoto, Japan 🇯🇵 - Dec. 2022 👉👉👉Please read my previous blog about my visit in Kyoto!

Shrines and Temples, Version 2005

Hello everyone, A few days ago, I told you about our little visit to Kobe in the Kitano Ijikan-Gai district. In this area, some European and American merchants settled at the beginning of the 20th century,

Da es seit einigen Tagen regnet, habe ich mir mal die Zeit genommen, um das Tenchi Kakitsuke zu zeichnen. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Lehre aus dem Shinto. Und das alles freihändig ganz ohne Kanjipapier👍.

Ich habe mein erstes Goshinmai 御神米 und ein Goshuin 御朱印 erhalten worüber ich mich sehr gefreut habe! Besucht man ein Schrein, dann wird ein Goshuin angefertigt, welches das Datum und ein Stempel mit dem

Komainu - Guardian Dog of the shrine - 04102022 It's a komainu which is located in front of the shinto ⛩️ shrine. I met this komainu in Tokushim, Japan 🇯🇵 #tokushima #japan #shinto #shrine

The side of the main rōmon gate at Iga Hachiman Shrine, with the rising sun flag in the background. This is a closeup of the rōmon (楼門), the tower gate marking entrance to the inner shrine, at Iga Hachiman

The famous Shinkyō bridge (神橋) in Nikkō, or Sacred Bridge. It is considered one of the three most beautiful bridges in Japan and is a World Heritage site. It leads to Futarasan jinja (二荒山神社), which is

Heute ist der erste Tag des neuen Jahres und der Tag an dem ich die Shide (紙垂) erneuerte und die alten ersetze. Diese Falttechnik ist garnicht mal so leicht. Aber nach ein paar Versuchen und einer netten

A visit to one of Japan's most holy Shinto shrines

Climbing the 785 steps to the Shinto shrine at Kotohira-gu on the island of Shikoku, Japan

Trees give peace to the souls of men. —Nora Waln You'll usually find at least a few sacred trees like this at Shinto Shrines, trees with a shimenawa (標縄) wrapped around them which indicates kodama (木魂),

Shinto shrines for superstitious employees and customers. Strange as it may seem, many hotels have Shinto shrines nearby so that customers can go pray if the need takes them. Many companies do the same,

Kitano Tenmangu, Kyoto, Japan Kitano Tenmangu - Wikipedia I have been sorting out my old pictures to quench my travel dr

Walking own the path at Shiratori Shrine (白鳥神社) in Okazaki Japan. I need to redo this video in a higher resolution, but I've lost the original file and I forget how I made it. I suppose I just did a pan

These angry looking guys are known as komainu (狛犬, koh-my-new), often translated as “lion-dog”. They are present at many Shinto shrines and occasionally other places and are thought to protect against

Enter into the shrine. This is the entrance to Shiratori Shrine (白鳥神社). This shrine is next to the very first apartment I lived at in Japan. Or, was next to. The apartment is no longer there. One thing

Shrine of the war god!

I wrote this essay around 2012 for the University of Maryland, which published the article in some local school newspaper, can't find the digital version (Maybe deleted or lost?) Dug it up from my archives