In 2018, I got an occasion to visit Dondo-yaki festival at small village in Yamanashi prefecture. There are series of New Year's rites...

Here, a picture of Ise Daidai-kagura no zu , picture of Daidai-kagura being the possession of Ise-jingū shrine. This picture is from the...

This image is from site of Nespaper Yamanashi Nichinichi shinbun. The Amor nicknamed Tate nashi no yoroi, litteraly amor "no need a...

Buddhist monk and also band player, Eishin Watanabe plays Bub Marley's Three Little Birds with Buddhist instruments (and guitar). I found...

Kōwakamai is a genre of medieval theatre (danse). Although it is less known, the text "jinkan gojūnen geten no uchi wo kurabureba" is...

This article is only for my notice. I'm afraid that this article is totally for personal remark. But I've never read that someone relate...

Ikutama matsuri is one of three biggest summer festival in Osaka. It is annual summer festival of Ikukunitama jinja shrine and is held...

Today I found a news that an individual in Shenzhen, China filed registration of trademark of the word "Ainu" to Japan's Patent office....

My hometown is very small with less 1000 inhabitants. The town is divided in 6 areas. Two of them, including the one where my family is...

I found this by chance while looking for Historia de Iapam. This is Arte da Lingoa de Iapam, Japanese-Portuguese dictionary edited by...

Amabie is merman-like creature with three legs. It is one of yokai, popularised supernatural spirits in Japanese folklore. Its oldest...

I've been working for Sugisawa Hiyama, one of Bangaku (kagura) in Yamagata, North-West Japan. Its most mysterious piece among its...

Susanoo-no-mikoto is one of Japanese gods. He was born as one of three children (Amaterasu as solar goddess, Tsukuyomi as lunar god, and...

For the ritual proceeding, you first have to set up the sacred site. Above, the image of sacred site for Shinto ritual. Normally, sacred...

I've been working for how people recognise divine presence with sounds in ritual. At the beginning when I started to read references, I...

I posted about a taboo in daily life a month ago Another taboo I was taught in my childhood was not to point gods, buddhic statues,...

I was raised in religious circonstance. My kindergarten was in Bouddhique temple. I learned all taboos there. One of taboo was not to...

Bhutan, small Buddhic country is famous as Gross National Happiness. Bhutan opened its door to foreign tourists in 1970s. Since the time,...

Awa odori is popular dance for bon festival (August 13th-15th). As the name shows, Awa odori is from Awa province, now Tokushipa...

Sina Fallazadeh is Iranian young composer based in Paris. He start musical practice by piano in his country and got his first master in...