Ageuma Shinji, a Shinto ritual, is held at the shrine on May 4 and 5 every year. Horses carrying young riders in traditional warrior attire rush up the steep slope during the festival. It is ...

While Japandi might sound like a trendy buzzword, this enduring design style is far more than a passing TikTok fad. “For ...

Mostly half-naked men with just white loincloth around their hips and several women in white robes joined the annual cold endurance ritual at the Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo.

Visiting a shrine is an enriching experience to have in Japan, but there's one shrine etiquette rule that too many tourists ...

From KISS to Ghost, there’s been a long history of ambiguous imagery in music. No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, ...

In the retrospective of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the NGV, we can see an aesthetic corpus grappling with the ...

As one of the world’s oldest forms of organized competition, the origins of sumo wrestling – Japan’s national art or kokugi, combining sport, sacred Shinto ritual, and cultural tradition – dates back ...

Falling on March 14 this year, it includes rituals like placing idols on swings, singing devotional songs, and applying colors. Celebrations, especially in West Bengal, Odisha, and Assam ...

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