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Kyoto's Largest Wooden Temple Holds A Truly Unsettling Giant Artifact Made Of Human Hair
Within the stunningly decorated wooden walls of an immense temple in Kyoto, you'll find an unusual artifact of human hair ...
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Why 'naked' men won't be cramming into this Japanese temple again
An curved arrow pointing right. A centuries-old tradition ended in 2024 due to Japan's aging population and decline in birth rates. The Somin-sai was one of the three major Hadaka Matsuri ...
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As sales of Japan temples and shrines surge, a crackdown on bad-faith buyers
SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...
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In secular Japan, what draws so many to temples and shrines? Stamp collecting and tradition
Japan’s unique relationship to faith is on full display during the final week of the year: People celebrate Christmas with an exchange of presents, ring Buddhist temple bells on New Year’s Eve ...
Shikoku: The Japanese Island of Pilgrimage and Spirituality
Shikoku, although the smallest of Japan's main islands, plays a huge role in the country's spiritual heritage. It's home to ...
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Visitors pray for healthy eyes at mountain temple in Japan
Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be cured. Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced ...