Mikagura performance For the first time in the continental U.S., Shinto priests from Japan performed the ancient spiritual ceremony of Mikagura in Portland's First Congregational Church. For the first ...

Every 20 years, Ise Jingu — the most revered Shinto shrine in Japan — is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a tradition that has been carried out for more than a millennia. The Ise Jingu is a ...

Miwako Yamamoto, 78, wife of Yukio, the Japanese Master Potter who was one of the initiators of the Tea Garden and Tozan kiln projects, lifts water to bless the ground during a Shinto ceremony. The ...

"Everybody," proclaimed the Rev. Koichi Barrish as SakéOne employees passed out a toast at the sake brewery's annual Shinto blessing ceremony. "Everybody over 21," SakéOne President Steve Vuylsteke ...

Japan's new Emperor Naruhito attends a ritual called Chokushi-Hakken-no-gi, a ceremony of dispatching Imperial Envoys to the Jingu (Ise Grand Shrine) and Mausolea of Emperor Jinmu and the 4 recent ...

Leading a Shinto ceremony that his ancestors have practiced for 4,000 years, the Rev. Alfred Tsuyuki stood before a wooden altar Monday and scattered salt and rice-paper confetti over a crowd gathered ...

I am so stressed helping my dear friends finalize the plans for their incredibly complicated wedding that I have begun to mumble to myself. Even more frightening, I am answering! What were they ...