Spring and summer is the height of wedding season in America, though lately Christmas weddings have become more popular than bad singers on American Idol. In Japan, spring is also a big season for weddings, but the Japanese prefer to bypass the summer vacation season to practice the Oriental art of gettin’ hitched in the ...
The remarkable changes to Japanese life and religion instigated by Japan’s first military defeat and occupation are undeniable. After 1945, the nationalistic and militaristic trends that grew to prominence during the renewal period of the Meiji Restoration began to reverse, and a new religious landscape began to emerge in Japan reshaped by the Japanese reaction ...
There are five major religious traditions in Japan. They are: Shinto, the belief that gods or spirits inhabit all our natural surroundings; Buddhism, which teaches deliverance from suffering through the elimination of desire; Taoism,respecting nature, while recognizing order and change in relation to opposing but connected forces; Confucianism, emphasizing the family, education, social and political ...
Shinto and Buddhism are two of the most influential and pervading traditions in Japanese religion. While both of these traditions are important to consider when attempting to gain an understanding of Japanese religion, it is worth noting that Shinto is the only major religion to originate on Japanese soil. Buddhism originated in India, and through ...
Amaterasu is the supreme goddess of Shintoism, a religion practiced mostly in the country of Japan. As a solar deity, goddess of the sun, Amaterasu’s name means “she who illuminates the Heavens.” Most agree the name is well suited to the goddess who was considered warm, compassionate, and benevolent to her people According to myth, ...
