Readers whom have been following my “Can a feudal era General and famed military strategist... Read More

Trying on a Furisode Kimono         The International Institute for Ritual Culture Education (IRCE) gave me... Read More

        Every second weekend of the month, the Taiyo no Marche (or Market of the Sun)... Read More

Gosho Jinja enshrines the patron deities of my neighborhood, Zaimokuza. Plural because the shrine is... Read More

　　Every time I visit a temple or shrine in Japan, I always find myself thinking,... Read More

We’ve all seen it in movies: the Buddhist monk sitting still in the Lotus position,... Read More