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 ...

A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the state of society and harvests for the year was held from the night of Jan. 14 ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ...

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A Shinto priest explains the ancient Japanese religion – and the crucial, often forgotten role women played in keeping it alive after World War II. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to send a ...

A trick called Under the Bridle in the Kakeuma Shinji A trick called Repelling Arrows in the Kakeuma Shinji They were regarded with awe, and rituals involving them date back to around a millennium.

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In Tokyo, participants braved frigid conditions at the Kanda Myojin Shrine for a traditional Japanese ritual aimed at ...

making reference to the centrality of women within Shinto beliefs. Dr Amanda Foreman discusses how Shinto merged with Buddhism in Japan and makes particular reference to the centrality of women ...

The Japanese Shinto religion is expressed to have “eight million gods”, or an abundance of gods too diverse to count. Today, Japanese spirituality is a melding of myriad cultures in a uniquely ...

Mostly half-naked men with just white loincloth around their hips and several women in white robes joined the annual cold endurance ritual at the Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo.