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About Mimusubi – Mimusubi
About Mimusubi
Mimusubi™ offers English-language information about Shinto, the native religious tradition of Japan. At present, it consists of this website, a Patreon, and a number of books, and it is...
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Musuhi – Mimusubi
Every year, the publicity department at Jingū produces a magazine called
“Musuhi”. This is a very lightweight publication, about sixteen pages, with a lot of colour photographs and nice images of Jin...
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Kokugakuin’s English Site – Mimusubi
A couple of weeks ago I was preparing something for Jinja Honchō, and needed to check Kokugakuin’s English Shinto website. That reminded me that I hadn’t written about it here, so I am making up for t...
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Mimusubi Essays on Shinto – Mimusubi
My local jinja, and a good example of a “typical” jinja. This essay is included in
An Introduction to Shinto, my book, which is available on Amazon and Gumroad.
Kagura (December 2018)
The sacred musi...
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Shinto Afterlife – Mimusubi
2021/09/21
I have said before that Shinto has much less to say about what happens after we die than a Westerner is likely to expect of a religion. On the other hand, Shinto is not completely silent on...
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What’s In A Name? – Mimusubi
2021/01/20
This blog is called “Mimusubi”, which is also the name for my general project of publishing about Shinto (and my trademark for both). Why did I choose that name?
“Mimusubi” is taken from th...