Shinto shrines abound in Japan, and most Japanese take part in one or another Shinto ceremony over the course of a year. Although Shinto is not a missionary religion, Shinto now has an international ...

Ageuma Shinji, a Shinto ritual, is held at the shrine on May 4 and 5 every year ... the horses can jump over the 1.5-to-2-meter-tall mud wall placed at the top of the slope.

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.

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 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.

Shrine parishioners throw icy cold water on themselves during the annual cold-endurance festival at Kanda Myojin Shinto shrine in Tokyo, on Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AP ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion ... to write down a personal prayer or wish and tie it to the prayer wall to commemorate your experience at the shrine.

Thank you.” Toriis are sacred gates or traditional arches typically placed at the entrance of Shinto shrines to signify the ...