Kumano Shrine Autumn Grand FestivalToday was the Autumn Grand Festival at the Matsunawa-cho Kumano Shrine. It has been ...

ISE, Japan — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that ...

Priests and officials in the Shinto priesthood march during Yamaguchisai, a kickoff ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual, which concludes in 2033, at Kotaijingu, also known as Naiku, or the inner ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – Several Shinto priests from the renowned Meiji Jingu Shrine toured this installation Thursday as part of an ongoing effort to increase interfaith dialogue with the unit ministry ...

It was a last-minute trip — 80 years in the making. Three Japanese Shinto priests visited the Long Island Museum of American Armor Tuesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War ...

In front of the giant torii, the entrance to Japanese Shinto shrines, most visitors are overwhelmed with awe. These enigmatic places of worship seem to conceal the utmost secrets in their interiors.

For decades, Shinto has been presented as a uniquely Japanese tradition rooted in culture, ritual, and ancestry. Yet around the world, new shrines are appearing—some led by non-Japanese priests who ...

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The first non-Japanese man to be ordained as a Shinto Priest was in Allentown Sunday to honor the spirit of a mountain spring. The Reverend Koichi Barrish from Washington State performed a special ...