A tiny shrine on a tiny island that is drawing grand comparisons to France's fortified Mont Saint-Michel monastery is drawing more visitors, raising expectations that tourism will improve in that ...

Instead followers draw their deities from nature - worshipping the rocks, trees, wind and sun. Shinto Shrines Dwarfed by nature, Shinto shrines provide a sense of calm.

There is always something drawing local residents to the neighborhood shrine, whether it be an annual celebration like New Year’s Day or just the hope of warding off bad luck.

Introduction Shinto at a glance. The essence of Shinto is the Japanese devotion to invisible spiritual beings and powers called kami, to shrines, and to various rituals.. Shinto is not a way of ...

Hiroshi Sugimoto: ‘The deeper I explore Shinto and Buddhist art, the more it reveals the shallowness of contemporary art’ ‘Hiroshi Sugimoto – The Descent of the Kasuga Spirit’, at the Kasuga-Taisha ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals -- cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is ...

Yet this is the central boast of Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya. This Shinto shrine, thought to have been founded nearly 2,000 years ago, is said to be the resting place of Kusanagi no Tsurugi, the sword ...