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Yuta 1

Yuta is a kind of shaman in Okinawa/Ryukyu and Amami islands in the far South of…

by tomomi.paromita 16 March 2021

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Biwa Hoshi 3

Continuation from Biwa Hoshi 2. Again, essentially a summary from Hyodo’s work on Biwa Hoshi. In…

by tomomi.paromita 2 March 2021

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Biwa Hoshi 2

This post is, like the last post, essentially a summary from Hyodo’s work on Biwa Hoshi…

by tomomi.paromita 7 February 2021

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Biwa Hoshi 1

This is Yoshiyuki Yamashika, the last Biwa Hoshi who has passed away in 1996. He was…

by tomomi.paromita 1 February 2021

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From the Tales of Heike

I am introducing a very famous poem, it is the very first stanza of the renown…

by tomomi.paromita 25 January 2021

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Indian mythical tiles from Japan

It was really by chance that I visited the Mosaic Tile Museum of Tajimi, where the…

by tomomi.paromita 21 January 2021

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Goze 3

I was going to end the posts on Goze with the last post, but then I…

by tomomi.paromita 17 January 2021

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Goze 2

This is in continuation from the previous post on Goze, the female shaman-minstrels who lived on…

by tomomi.paromita 13 January 2021

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Goze 1

“Goze” refers to visually challenged women who used to live by singing at the doors with…

by tomomi.paromita 8 January 2021

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Haku-in Zen hymns

There is a genre of Japanese Buddhist hymns called Wasan. Most of the Buddhist Sutras, coming…

by tomomi.paromita 3 January 2021