The four gods (shijin) are often seen as guardians who protect the four directions of east, west, north, and south, which are also called the four gods of direction.
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Category: TRADITIONAL CULTURE
BONE CHILLING STORIES FOR HOT JAPANESE SUMMER NIGHTS: MUJINA
After finishing the tale, the storyteller would go to the other room, extinguish
one paper lantern and look in the mirror.
Summer Festivals in Japan
JapanUp!’s new web writer John uploaded his first article! Learn more about Japanese summer festivals!
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Homecoming: Katsura Fukuryu Brings Rakugo to His Hometown of Winnipeg
Although rakugo performed in English is currently gaining popularity all over the world
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Okasaki-Jinja Shrine
, popular with people who love rabbits, which in this place have a beneficial effect for couples or women wishing to have children, for childbirth, marriage, marital harmony and the education of children
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Gion Matsuri and beautiful pictures
A traditional Japanese candy, which was originally called ‘Yukari’.
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Interview a kondanshi named Takarai Kinkaku
I had the opportunity and the pleasure to interview her recently, to find out what inspired her to become a kodan storyteller.
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Japanese people float stars in their tea?! Talking about Ukihoshi
A traditional Japanese candy, which was originally called ‘Yukari’.
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Businessman and Tea Master, Yamada Torajiro: One of the First Japanese People to Convert to Islam
When the 264-year-old isolationist foreign policy of the Tokugawa shogunate was finally lifted ….
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Learn Japan’s southernmost prefecture, OKINAWA Part2
Cape Zanpa in Yomitan Village is the first of many spectacular capes that dot the eastern coastline. The …
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It’s A Month Of Hydrangea!!! Hydrangea Myth!
As you must know, the Japanese love nature and during the period June – July, it is the turn of the essential colorful hydrangea
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Learn Japan’s southernmost prefecture, OKINAWA Part1
Many Americans probably know Okinawa by its association with the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, which was …
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