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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...

The ritual called Shizume-no-mai, dance for pacification is for getting out of ritual status. When it comes to possession, we tend to...

Ever since I started to study kagura, my question is "what is music of kagura?". My great-uncle is shinto priest living in big Shinto...

This article is totally far from ethnomusicology thing. Just skip it if you don't think about getting Ph. D!! Ever since I started my Ph....

Now I and other two Ph.d candidates of Sorbonne University are organising the South France branch of Seminar of Ethnomusicology of...

I will make a short presentation of my thesis at 10 am during Sorbonne Actuelle. Ph.D candidates from diverse academic field will present...

The Pola fundation of Japan will organise a conference untitled Culture japonaise: spiritualité, beauté et tradition in January 25th in...

I just get the confirmation that my abstract was accepted for presentation during autumn course of Grieg Music school for...

Particularly to H who asked me how to get start your research. As I know, you have two ways: 1) Your supervisor suggest you the subject....

First of all, please let me point out that my English might not be enough to express what Dr. KAWASAKI Mizuho remarks correctly... Today,...