Torii gates are often found at the entrance to Shinto shrines that symbolize the transition from the everyday world to the sacred. The incident comes as a surge of tourists have visited Japan in ...

Thank you.” Toriis are sacred gates or traditional arches typically placed at the entrance of Shinto shrines to signify the boundary between the profane and sacred. A torii at the entrance is ...

where the shrine sits. Sometimes in dense rows and other times more staggered, the gates are all engraved with the names of Shinto devotees who donated them. It takes about three hours to make the ...

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destroying one of its torii gates that rises out of the bay waters adjacent to the shrine. In the years since, though, the Nagasaki Prefecture Shinto shrine which served as a model for one of the ...

The Imperial Messenger (Chokushi) views the Aoi festival horse-racing from this building. KAMIGAMO SHRINE: The Kamo Shrines (Kamigamo and Shimogamo) are among the most important in Kyoto. Kamigamo ...

Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is getting a ...

he Kumano Hongu Shrine Spring Festival, held every year from April 13 to 15, is one of the most important Shinto events in Wakayama Prefecture. It takes place at Kumano Hongu Shrine, one of the Three ...

Instead, Ishiba plans to make a ritual "masakaki" tree offering to the Shinto shrine as he did during its autumn festival in October. The spring festival is scheduled for Monday through Wednesday.

KYOTO--Cultural treasures usually off-limits to the public are unveiled at Buddhist temples, Shinto ... temple's Sanmon gate and its Ohojo and Kohojo guesthouses, Yasakajinja shrine, Chishaku ...