Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 Japan Times By TOMOKO OTAKE
Instead of visiting one shrine, visit seven
A fun thing I like to do at New Year’s is to go on a walking tour of seven shrines and temples in Tokyo. … Read the rest
Category: Kanto (Page 6 of 6)
An article in the Daily Yomiuri by naturalist and cultural anthropologist, Kevin Short, talks of the mythological connections of Mt Tsukuba, not far from Tokyo.
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Mt. Tsukuba’s twin peaks represent Japan’s mythical married couple
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Yesterday there was a sumo ceremony at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo watched by 3000 people to celebrate the award of the top rank of yokozuna to the Mongolian wrestler, Harumafuji. The award means that the two top-ranking sumo wrestlers … Read the rest
A syncretic mausoleum
As the centrepiece of Nikko, Toshogu is one of the most famed destinations in Japan. Ornate, colourful, elaborate, it acts as mausoleum for Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), founder of Japan’s most successful shogunate dynasty,.
Unfortunately for me, … Read the rest
One of the key points of Shinto is the notion of renewal, in tune with the perennial ability of nature to renew itself. Here Kevin Short, naturalist and cultural anthropologist, writes of his visit to Shinobazu Pond in Tokyo. (… Read the rest
Last weekend was the Kannamesai at Ise Jingu, often called its harvest festival. It’s their major event of the year, and I thought about going but found everything was booked. Then I heard that if you couldn’t visit Ise itself, … Read the rest