Taking the Kami to the People
Jinja Shinpō continues to carry interesting articles about the ways in which different jinja across Japan have responded to the constraints imposed by COVID-19. Last week, there was an article about a Yasaka Jinja in Hakui City in Ishikawa Prefecture, on the Japan Sea coast. The jinja was founded in the late fifteenth century, with the sharing of the kami from Yasaka Jinja in Kyoto. Thus, it is closely connected to prayers for the end of epidemics, and has an annual Gion Matsuri, like the one in Kyoto, only at… Read More »Taking the Kami to the People