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I decided to write about my visit to a Shinto Church as my cultural experience. The church I visited is called Izumo Taisha Mission of Hawaii. I had actually been to this church many times since I was a child to participate in Japanese cultural events, but I have little knowledge of what the Shinto religion actually practices. This is also the shrine where my family goes for our New Year’s blessing ritual. Since turning to Christianity, I still liked to attend the church’s events and New Year’s ritual

Boston Red Sox at the beautiful Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Twins became my favorite team, because of how they performed that day winning the game seven to one. That day I got to see what would become my favorite player of all time Torii Hunter. Watching the way Torii Hunter played the game always at one hundred percent taught me that there is nothing easy in life, and that you always attack with one hundred percent of your effort. After that, game I began to follow Major League Baseball closely

Buddhism has a far-reaching impact on Japanese culture. Back to the 6th century in 552, dated in Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan), Buddhism was introduced by Emperor Kinmei and some buddhist monks and nuns together with an image of Buddha and a number of sutras. Ever since, the arrival and expansion of this religion to Japan started to have massive influence on everything, including a unique Japanese architecture, the Shinto Shrine, the centre of beliefs of Shinto and the spiritual totem for Japanese

The Torii gate symbolises holy ground as well as marking the boundary between the physical and the spiritual world where it is a located in front of a Shinto shrine. The gate is the only visible indication that someone is entering a religious shrine. Traditionally created the Torii Gate is constructed only using three pieces as it is the sacred number of Kami. Due to three being a sacred number

Edgar Degas appears to have never accommodated himself to the name of “impressionist,” wanting to call himself a “realist,” “independent,” or “free.” Like the impressionists, he looked to catch transient minutes in the stream of present day life, yet he demonstrated little enthusiasm for painting plein air scenes, favoring scenes in theaters and bistros lit up by fake light, which he used to illuminate the forms of his figures, complying to his training. Degas’s choice of subject matter mirrors his

II. Body A. Point #1: In 1923, Shinjiro Torii wanted a whisky that had the essence of Japanese nature. He wanted it to be hand-crafted by artisans. He dreamt of creating a refined yet complex whisky for delicate Japanese palates to enhance their dinners. 1. Shinjiro Torii invested his family fortune to pursue his dream of building the first Japanese whisky distillery. The Yamazaki Distillery, Japan’s first

In the case of Spirited Away, it utilizes traditional Japanese legends, coming from the religion of Shintoism. To briefly go over the religion of Shintoism it is indigenous to Japan, Shinto practitioners worship many gods or kami at shrines; and a shrines being the places of worship and different shrines for different kami. Shinto is the way of the gods, kami, or spirits, which is the basis of Shintoism. In Spirited Away, local kami or different gods come to the bathhouse to be cleansed of impurities

Shinto is the oldest religion in Japan. In this religion, members worship deceased family and various gods that represent nature. Shinto differs from most of the other major religions since it does not have founder, prophets, nor does it have a “major text which outlines its principal beliefs.” Shinto’s longevity is due to its flexibility to adapt and become interwoven with the Japanese culture. In fact, much of what the Japanese people highly value in a person’s character comes from Shinto’s key

For week 7 I decided that I would do my assignment on Shinto, since taking this class and reading about Shinto it started to interest me, especially now that I can look back and think about what I saw when I was in Japan and wondered what the religion was that they were practicing. Shinto’s meaning is “way of the gods”, this is one of the oldest religions in Japan, which began during the period of the Yayoi culture (c. 300 BCE - 300 CE). The faith has neither a founder or prophets and there is no

The Japanese culture has been greatly influenced by its religions, and one of the most influential religions has been Shintoism. Shintoism has been dated back to 500BC, when the descendants of the sun goddess, Amaterasu-OmiKami, worshiped the gods and goddesses of Japan. Shinto means "way of the gods" and that represents what people who practice Shintoism believe in. Shintoism is a religion based on Japanese mythology, which is centered on a male god, Izanagi, and a female goddess, Izanami. These