After a tour of the shrine grounds (see Part One), Barrish sensei and I moved towards the entrance of the shrine buildings before which stands the temizuya (water basin). It’s not often at a Shinto shrine you get to … Read the rest
Category: International (Page 25 of 26)
For years I’ve been intrigued by the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America. Here, uniquely, is a fully-fledged Shinto shrine run by a non-Japanese priest under the auspices of Tsubaki Shrine in Mie prefecture. As you can see in the … Read the rest
A video called White Shamans, Plastic Medicine Men presents the debate about whether Native American religions can or should be practised by those of other ethnicities, particularly white cultures because of the power imbalance. It’s an issue known as Cultural … Read the rest
My interest in Shinto started from neo-pagan sympathies, and after coming to live in Japan I was drawn to explore the the pagan and shamanistic connections of the religion. As Herbert Kuhn and others have pointed out, the attraction of … Read the rest
Sarah Spaid Ishida wrote a report on ‘The Making of an American Shinto Community’ as an MA thesis for the University of Florida in 2008. It gives an interesting and detailed overview of developments at the Tsubaki Grand Shrine and … Read the rest
With the exception of the American Tsubaki Shrine and the Holland Foundation, the other shrines cope mainly for the Japanese expatriate community and have priests who are Japanese by birth or race. (Since the compilation of this list in 2011, … Read the rest
There’s an attractive looking home-made torii at a health and well-being centre called Breitenbush south of Portland, Oregon near the Mount Jefferson Wilderness Area.
The website says that, ‘A Shinto Torii Gate (constructed by community alumni using cedar logs from … Read the rest