In Shinto, the water deity appears in various guises at shrines. In Buddhism, dragons ward off fires, bring the virtuous rain of Dharma, and often adorn the ceilings of lecture halls at Zen temples.

As far as Shinto shrines go (there are about 400 in Kyoto ... which gave the temple its name (kiyomizu means "pure water"). The waterfall is divided into three streams, each of which is said ...

Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is getting a ...

The Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership was formed in 1969 as an affiliate of the Association of Shinto Shrines, an influential group representing about 80,000 shrines nationwide.

The Tomioka Hachimangu shrine is famous for a summer festival in August An attack believed to have been sparked by a succession feud has left three people dead at a well-known Shinto shrine in Tokyo.

Japanese police have arrested a 65-year-old American tourist for allegedly defacing a Tokyo shrine. The man ... the living and sacred worlds in the Shinto religion – as a prank, according ...

Hayashi made the comment after the Japanese news agency said the previous day it mistakenly reported that Ikuina, also a member of the House of Councilors, visited the Shinto shrine on Aug.

This time we introduce "Aso Jinja: A Shinto Shrine Rises from the Rubble," which presents the recovery project of Aso Jinja, a Shinto shrine destroyed in the Kumamoto earthquake in 2016.

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion ... visitors have the opportunity to purify themselves with holy water. It's common to wash your hands and rinse your mouth out, but ...