Sunday, 24th September 2017, 10am – 8pm
Features
Daikagura Performers: Mimasu Monnosuke, Okinaya Wasuke
Japanese Samurai Selection
Tsumura Reijiro, Suzuki Yoshitaka and Ichikawa Hibiki with DJ TAKAKI
London’s very own and much loved
Izumo Taisha in Hawaii was founded in 1906 and for the past 27 years has hosted a Hiroshima bell ringing ceremony. The bell was donated by the city of Hiroshima, which is twinned with Honolulu. Though it is a Buddhist-style … Read the rest
What happens if you apply Zen to the Celtic tradition of Druidry? It’s not something that would usually come to mind, though a book with that theme has just been published with neo-pagan specialists, John Hunt Publishing.
Druidry is a … Read the rest
Green Shinto has written before of the remarkable preeminent Shinto scholar, Richard Ponsonby-Fane (1878-1937), an English aristocrat who made Kyoto his home in the prewar years and wrote extensive volumes about Kyoto and shrine histories. It’s said he knew more … Read the rest
The Gion Matsuri: Foreigners’ float
(The “Hakurakuten Yama” float this year will consist of 18 men from all over the world.)
By Shaheed Rupani (from Why Kyoto? Jun Sept 2017, p. 42-43)
Kyoto is known as the old capital of … Read the rest
Christmas day in Japan, falling on a Sunday this year, seems an opportune time to consider the relative lack of Christianity in the country. This is despite some 150 years of Westernisation, yet only 1.5% of the population are Christian, … Read the rest
Further to the announcement of a Shinto New Year in Los Angeles, Green Shinto is pleased to announce the largest Hatsumode celebrations in North America, at the Tsubaki Grand Shrine in Granite Falls, Washington State.
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Rev. Koichi Barrish writes…… Read the rest
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