Biggest Camphor Tree carries Samurai Spirit
The Yomiuri Shimbun. November 04, 2017 By Kazuhiro Katayama
AIRA, Kagoshima —
Do you know how large Japan’s biggest tree is, and where it stands?
The largest circumference for a Japanese tree is 24.22
Category: Ancestor worship (Page 3 of 8)
Today is Obon, ‘the Japanese day of the dead’, and an occasion about which Green Shinto has posted in several previous years. (Click here for reflections on Japanese and the dead, here for Kyoto’s Daimonji festival, and here for a … Read the rest
‘Japan, the Land of the Kami as Perceived by Lafcadio Hearn’ was the title of the Lecture Event put on at Meiji Jingu to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Irish-Japanese diplomatic relations. The Japanese for the event was ‘Koizumi Yakumo … Read the rest
As Shinto spreads in the West, one hears more and more about it being a religion that prizes nature and is ecological in essence. Unfortunately that is far from the case in Japan, where the ancestral element in Shinto leads … Read the rest
Last year I took the direct flight to the island of Miyakojima in Okinawa for a few days spring sunshine. It was so wonderful that I decided to go again, but this time instead of touring the island by rented … Read the rest
Hearn is noted for his sensitivity and understanding of Shinto animism, but he also had a fine appreciation of the ancestral side of Shinto. This is evident in the first of his Japanese books, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894), which … Read the rest
It can prove difficult to find accounts of how Shinto shaped the nature of Buddhism in Japan, though once again it seems the pioneering Lafcadio Hearn actually covered this subject over a hundred years ago.
In his writings on Buddhism, … Read the rest