Shinto opportunity in the City of Angels coming up!
Little Tokyo in Los Angeles celebrates New Year’s Day with an Oshogatasu Festival. Live entertainment, stalls, Japanese food, mochi-making, taiko, kendo – and a Shinto priestess with sacred items on … Read the rest
‘Of all Shinkoku [land of the gods] the most holy ground is the land of Izumo.’
So wrote Hearn in the early days of his infatuation with Japan when he was resident in Matsue and an unabashed admirer of the … Read the rest
This is the second part of an interview with the young Austrian, Florian Wiltschko, who in 2007 became the first non-Japanese ever to obtain an official priest’s licence as recognised by Jinja Honcho. (For the first part of this interview, … Read the rest
Green Shinto is delighted to carry an interview with Florian Wiltschko, a foreigner who has become the first non-Japanese in history to obtain an official priest’s licence through the Jinja Honcho system. There have already been postings about Florian on … Read the rest
Green Shinto was delighted to meet Mark Teeuwen on his recent visit to Kyoto and have a chance to get an interview with him. Mark (b.1966) is a professor of Japanese Religions at Oslo University and author of several influential … Read the rest
What raised Hearn above his contemporaries was the power of his pen. Like most people, I had never heard of Hearn before coming to Japan, and it’s no doubt true to say that because he wrote favourably of the Japanese … Read the rest
This is part of a series on Lafcadio Hearn, a Shinto sympathiser 100 years ahead of his time. Though he was not as proficient in language terms as his great Shinto contemporaries, such as B.H. Chamberlain and W.G. Aston, he … Read the rest
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