More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Achi Shrine is located on a hilltop overlooking the Bikan Historic District in Kurashiki, and is now the pre-eminent shrine of the area. T...

Chiyo Inari Shrine Tsuyama Chiyo Inari Shrine is literally right at the base of the massive stone fortifications that made up Tsuyama Castle...

Kumenan Kamo Shrine is the collective name given to the pair of famous shrines in the north of Kyoto, Kamigamo, and Shimogamo. This branch s...

A chinowa is a ring made out of a kind of reed/grass that can be found at shrines and is used as a form of purification. You pass throug...

The Kasuga Shrine in Hagi is located on the southern edge of the old samurai district and is one of the approximately 3000  branches o...

Shimenawa, the ropes usually made of rice-straw though increasingly of plastic , are found in many places in Japan though typically at shr...

I thought I would post a slightly longer video of Iwami kagura. A dance usually last 45 minutes, but for now I post the final sequence of Sh...