Japanese spirituality Archives

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

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

by tomomi.paromita 2 March 2021

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

by tomomi.paromita 7 February 2021

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

by tomomi.paromita 1 February 2021

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

by tomomi.paromita 25 January 2021

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

by tomomi.paromita 17 January 2021

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

by tomomi.paromita 13 January 2021

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

by tomomi.paromita 8 January 2021

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

by tomomi.paromita 3 January 2021

One day I saw a pair of Oshira deities at a museum in Morioka. One was…

by tomomi.paromita 26 December 2020