Bless this Laptop
According to this article in The Register, the Kanda-Myojin Shrine near Akihabara does a brisk business blessing laptops to protect them from viruses and other mishaps. I’ve been burned by articles in...
View ArticleBlessed Cellphone
Brian Ashcraft of Wired was having terrible luck with cell phones: he ran through four of them in less than a year. So he took his next one to the Kanda Shrine near Akihabara, which specializes in...
View ArticleNotes on the Shinto Religion and Anime
If you ask an English-speaking Japanese person about religion, you will probably be told something like this: “I am not religious but I practice Buddhism and Shinto because that is my tradition.” This...
View ArticleKotohira–Konpira Shrine
19 October 2011 Not far from Takamatsu, also on the island of Shikoku, is the town of Kotohira which is best known as the location of the huge Konpira Shrine (officially called Kotohira-guu). This is...
View ArticleYoshinogari Site
October 24, 2011 Yoshinogari is located in an isolated farming area in northwestern Kyushu, but it was once an important center of early Japanese culture. This was the site of a major settlement during...
View ArticleKyoto–Kiyomizudera Temple and Jishu Shrine
October 26, 2011 I am making a single post for the Kiyomizudera Temple and Jishu Shrine since these popular sites are located right next to each other and anyone who visits one of them will probably...
View ArticleSasami-san and Shinto concepts of death
Sasami-san@Ganbaranai has gotten noticeably darker with the appearance of Sasami’s dead mother. By now I’ve dropped the hypothesis that Sasami is an ordinary girl with Shinto-based delusions. This...
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