Akiko Jul 212 minDondon-yaki : New Year's bonfire 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 a...
Akiko Jul 62 minIconography of kagura performance at Ise 1Here, a picture of Ise Daidai-kagura no zu , picture of Daidai-kagura being the possession of Ise-jingū shrine. This picture is from the...
Akiko Jun 262 minAmor Tatenashi at Kanda-Ten-jinja shrineThis image is from site of Nespaper Yamanashi Nichinichi shinbun. The Amor nicknamed Tate nashi no yoroi, litteraly amor "no need a shiel...
Akiko Jun 203 minA Brief Introduction to Buddhist Instruments Buddhist monk and also band player, Eishin Watanabe plays Bub Marley's Three Little Birds with Buddhist instruments (and guitar). I found...
Akiko Jun 193 minAtsumori : 50 years in human world Kōwakamai is a genre of medieval theatre (danse). Although it is less known, the text "jinkan gojūnen geten no uchi wo kurabureba" is ver...
Akiko Jun 172 minTingsha becomes kane : Why Buddhist instrument is in Shintō danceThis 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 ...
Akiko Jun 151 minIkutama matsuri canceled Ikutama matsuri is one of three biggest summer festival in Osaka. It is annual summer festival of Ikukunitama jinja shrine and is held fo...
Akiko Jun 31 minAinu as political issueToday I found a news that an individual in Shenzhen, China filed registration of trademark of the word "Ainu" to Japan's Patent office. I...
Akiko Jun 23 minBishamon Daiko Drum EnsembleMy 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 b...
Akiko May 41 minJapanese-Portuguese dictionary by Jesuit missionary I found this by chance while looking for Historia de Iapam. This is Arte da Lingoa de Iapam, Japanese-Portuguese dictionary edited by Ia...
Akiko Apr 261 min#Amabiechallenge Amabie is merman-like creature with three legs. It is one of yokai, popularised supernatural spirits in Japanese folklore. Its oldest ref...
Akiko Mar 172 minHoly chickens - Sugisawa Hiyama I've been working for Sugisawa Hiyama, one of Bangaku (kagura) in Yamagata, North-West Japan. Its most mysterious piece among its reperto...
Akiko Feb 91 minConquest of eight-headed dragonSusanoo-no-mikoto is one of Japanese gods. He was born as one of three children (Amaterasu as solar goddess, Tsukuyomi as lunar god, and ...
Akiko Dec 20, 20191 minInstallation of sacred site with bamboo For the ritual proceeding, you first have to set up the sacred site. Above, the image of sacred site for Shinto ritual. Normally, sacred ...
Akiko Nov 10, 20192 minSilence I've been working for how people recognise divine presence with sounds in ritual. At the beginning when I started to read references, I d...
Akiko Sep 1, 20191 minTaboos in daily life (2) 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, grave...
Akiko Aug 21, 20191 minTaboos in daily life (1)I was raised in religious circonstance. My kindergarten was in Bouddhique temple. I learned all taboos there. One of taboo was not to wri...
Akiko Jul 9, 20192 minWhy always western classical music? (Music education in Bhutan)Bhutan, small Buddhic country is famous as Gross National Happiness. Bhutan opened its door to foreign tourists in 1970s. Since the time,...
Akiko Jun 9, 20192 minAwa odori (dance) : instrumentsAwa odori is popular dance for bon festival (August 13th-15th). As the name shows, Awa odori is from Awa province, now Tokushipa prefectu...
Akiko May 16, 20192 minSina Fallazadeh - MANIFESTE 2019Sina Fallazadeh is Iranian young composer based in Paris. He start musical practice by piano in his country and got his first master in P...
