Green Shinto is delighted to have been invited to report on a major conference happening over the next few days at Ise Jingu, which involves the UK-based Alliance of Religions and Conservation together with the National Association of Shrines (Jinja … Read the rest
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In a talk this week at Kyoto’s Doshisha University, leading Shinto scholar John Breen talked of postwar attitudes to the Shikinen Shingu rituals at Ise marking completion of the 20-year cycle of rebuilding. In particular, he focussed on the ‘the … Read the rest
There’s an anonymous website by a retired Japanese gentleman called Leisurely Walkings which gives details of his excursions. One of them was a six-day walk from Osaka to Ise, recreating the Okage-mairi of Edo times. He writes that Okage-mairi should … Read the rest
Pilgrimage to Shinojima island
February 16, 2014 Yoshitaka Tsujimoto / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
The Yomiuri Shimbun
In the Edo period (1603-1867), travel and transportation were restricted under the Tokugawa shogunate, and the only major trip most people could … Read the rest
The Kyoto Shinbun recently carried a half-page profile of Shinto scholar, John Breen (click here for his Wikipedia page).
The newspaper notes that he has a high reputation for scholarship and investigates matters that Japanese scholars are hesitant to research. … Read the rest
Kyoto is now becoming quite a centre of English-language Shinto studies, and today I happened to run into Gunther Nitchske at my local Starbucks. Gunther specialises in architectural and urban studies, and he is the author of the fascinating From … Read the rest
Green Shinto is delighted to have a firsthand report of the recent climax to the 20 year cycle of renewal at Japan’s premier Shinto shrine, Ise Jingu. It’s a rare and special privilege to be able to attend this most … Read the rest