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<em>Nengajo</em> 2010
FOLKS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES have exchanged seasonal greetings by sending Christmas cards through the mail for at least 170 years. The Japanese also use the mail to exchange seasonal greetings, but they… more →
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Nengajo 2010
wrote 3 days ago: FOLKS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES have exchanged seasonal greetings by sending Christmas cards through the … more →
Getting boared in Japan
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wrote 5 months ago: PICK ALMOST ANY TOPIC as a point of departure for exploring Japan, and it’s a near certainty that a … more →
Matsuri da! (107): The mikoshi marathon
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wrote 6 months ago: A KEY ELEMENT of most Shinto festivals are the portable shrines known as mikoshi. Rites in other rel … more →
Asuka: Gagaku for the 21st century
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wrote 6 months ago: LONG-TIME FRIENDS know that I’m like iron filings for the magnet of modern Japanese roots music, inc … more →
Japan's cultural kaleidoscope
wrote 7 months ago: TECHNOPOLIS TOKYO is the image of Japan for many—-an ultra-sheen world of hyper-intense, manga … more →
A Japanese wedding bell, Shinto (and Buddhist) style
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wrote 7 months ago: YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW what that yellow thing hanging from the post is when you first see it—I didn’t ei … more →
Aso, the Asahi, and Chinese chutzpah
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wrote 8 months ago: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN, Japan’s premier newspaper of the left, has a reputation similar to that of the Ne … more →
The tenno's own cherry tree
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wrote 9 months ago: WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED that cherry trees are the stuff of legend both in North America and Japan? Ev … more →
The lightness of being in Kyoto
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wrote 9 months ago: ONE THING FOR CERTAIN about the Japanese is that they love a good light show, particularly those inv … more →
The Buddhist temple Koreans built in Japan
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wrote 9 months ago: THERE’S NO TELLING what’ll turn up when someone sticks a spade into the ground in Japan. In Okinawa, … more →
What price piety?
wrote 12 months ago: TO BE HONEST ABOUT IT, communing with the divinities by attending a service at a religious instituti … more →
Shogatsu 2009: Lighting up traditional Japan
wrote 1 year ago: AT LEAST ONCE IN THEIR LIVES, usually in early adolescence, Americans make a point to stay up to mid … more →
Miko make the season bright during New Year's in Japan
wrote 1 year ago: MOST OF THE TIME, a Shinto shrine is all but deserted. Shinto isn’t a religion in the way people usu … more →
A good hachimaki is a terrible thing to waste
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wrote 1 year ago: YOU’VE ALL SEEN those bandanas or towels the Japanese sometimes tie around their foreheads. They’re … more →
December means spring cleaning in Japan
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wrote 1 year ago: IT’S DECEMBER, and that means the Japanese are getting started on their spring cleaning chores. Fami … more →
The Shinto beauty pageant in Osaka
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wrote 1 year ago: THERE’S SOMETHING for everyone at Shinto shrines and festivals: simulated sex acts on stage, s … more →
The ume of good fortune
wrote 1 year ago: TWO MONTHS AGO, we had a post about the different uses of ume, a Japanese fruit related to the apric … more →
Dazaifu elvettes getting ready for New Year's Day
wrote 1 year ago: AS YEAREND APPROACHES, many people begin to look forward to the Christmas season. For most Japanese, … more →
Kamakura in a Day
wrote 1 year ago: It was so refreshing to see the ocean again. I've missed it... Small pond on the grounds of Hase … more →
