With just one month remaining in 2024, a Buddhist temple near Tokyo is preparing a gigantic straw rope decoration for the New Year. At Naritasan Shinsho-ji temple in Chiba Prefecture, about 10 ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan ... from Buddhist temples and treasures ...

Wakayama and East Nara Nabari In the previous edition of The Japan Agenda: The Premium Travel Blueprint, we explored Fukuoka ...

One set of documents concerns Tokyo’s Zojoji temple, the head temple of the Jodo Sect of Buddhism ... the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China as well as for learning about ...

Hotei, a Japanese god who carries a large sack, has come to be identified with Santa Claus – except that he brings the ...

December 7 is a day of great significance for Lourdes Nicholls. It’s the day her grandparents, both Japanese immigrants, got married in Hyde Park. It’s also the anniversary of the ...

Koyasan (高野山) is one of Japan’s most significant places when it comes to Buddhism, and a beautiful place to visit. From ...

This is also reflected by its full Chinese name, written above the entrance: Helan Fo Guang Shan Hehua Si, meaning “The Netherlands’ Fo Guang Shan Dutch-Chinese temple”. Curious to know what the ...

we will make a stop at Honen-in Temple and learn about the principles of Pure Land Buddhism (Jodo-shu), observing the harmony between nature and the temple buildings. We will discuss the temple’s ...

Inside, the sacred ... on Kiyomizu-dera's shuincho, temple seal collection book (1200 yen) Kiyomizudera’s Main Hall, perched dramatically on a cliff, was built to enshrine Seiju Kannon, the Buddhist ...

Hōki Kokubun-ji (伯耆国分寺) was a Buddhist temple located in the Kokubunji neighborhood of the city of Kurayoshi, Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It was one of the provincial temples established by ...