I am currently doing a major life inventory, and I will be uploading a large number of the over 50,000 photos in my ...

If you go to a shrine, there is a torii gate. There is a worship hall, and a deity is enshrined there.If you go to a temple, there is a Buddhist statue, and a monk chants sutras.For us today, the ...

Also frequented by Buddhists, since (in Japan) it is often difficult to separate Buddhism and Shinto (many Japanese practicing both). The Itsukushima Shrine (in Hatsukaichi, Japan) is iconic because ...

Tsurugaoka Hachimangū Shrine or Tsurugaoka Hachimangū-ji. The Tsurugaoka Hachimangū Shrine is the most important and most sacred Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, Japan. So central is the shrine ...

One of Japan's oldest and most venerated Shinto shrines, dedicated to the god of martial arts and national protection.

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 ...

Priests and officials in the Shinto priesthood march during Yamaguchisai, a kickoff ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual, which concludes in 2033, at Kotaijingu, also known as Naiku, or the inner ...