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Shinto Purification Ceremony Held in Northern Japan Shrine; Worshippers at Aomori’s Uto Shrine Burn Items to Pray for Good Health in New Year
The Yomiuri Shimbun 15:21 JST, January 15, 2025 AOMORI — About 50 worshippers attended a Shinto purification ritual at Uto Shrine on Dec. 28, burning dolls and other sacred items to pray for good ...
Japan Today1mon
Once taboo, more Japanese women are brewing sake
Many traditional Shinto and Shinto associated customs banned women from engaging in practices. This was known as NyoNin Kinsei (女人禁制) or the Prohibition of Women. This was based on the notion of Aka ...
Times Colonist1mon
Once taboo, more Japanese women are brewing sake
Sake making has a history of more than a thousand years, with strong roots in Japan's traditional Shinto religion. But when the liquor began to be mass produced during the Edo period, from 1603 ...