On June 30th, 2019, we performed the ceremony for Nagoshi-no-Harae in our traditional ritual way that has been passed down from generation to generation through the long history of Shusse Inari Shrine. We read each person’s name and address who sent/handed Hitogata during the ceremony to pray for their purification, good fortune, and happiness, as […]

We held Shinto workshop for foreigners on June 8th. We plan to hold this workshop again on May/June 2019. We also plan to organize a Japanese mythology tour by Shinto priest near the future.

We performed Irei-sai, a Sintō Memorial ceremony on Sunday, March 10th for the victims of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011 and 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, 2018 Hokkaidō earthquake. Our ceremony was aired on abc TV and NHK as well as other media. Through experiencing a traditional Japanese ritual, the Shintō ceremony, more […]

We will hold a Shintō memorial ceremony on Sunday, March 10th for the victims of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011. This ceremony will be performed as part of the “Love to Nippon” event. Please come and pray with us for the spirits of victims. When: Sunday, March 10th 12.00pm – 12.20pm: […]

We held Setsubun-sai on Friday, February 1st at Montessori International Academy (2717 South Halladay Street, Santa Ana, CA 92705).  After the ceremony, we provided Setsubun-no-Harai and Yakubarai for Yakudoshi (critical year) ceremonies. We also provided traditional ritual ceremonies for purifying and recharging the spirit. Please see below. And we provided Gokitoh ceremony of Yakubarai for Yakudoshi (critical year) […]

Setsubun (February 3rd) is New Years in the lunar calendar, it is the day a new season begins. From ancient times, the Japanese people have prayed for purification, and to be rid of the previous year’s Kegare. New Year’s rituals are for cleansing and refreshing of energy for their spirit. Kegare means “withered spirit.” During the year, the energy […]

Yes!!!  We will be back to have booth at Little Tokyo on the New Years Day, January 1st,  2019! We will hold Saitan-sai for praying people’s happiness, safety, success and world peace. You are very welcome to attend Saitan-sai as well as personal prayer. We will have Hamaya, Kumade, Ofuda and Omamori as well as Gokitoh such as Yakuyoke etc… (Please make […]

We held Aki Matsuri at Koda Farms. We showed appreciation of this year's great harvest and pray next year's great harvest and safety. We held Hatsuuma Matsuri(Spring festival)on March and Taue Kiyobarai (Purification field for Planting Ceremony) on April. We plan to distribute rice from the field we held ceremony from January 1st. Details are […]

Thank you for attending to Kodama Shizume no Matsuri (Calming Spirits of Trees Ceremony) on Sunday, November 4th at The Learning Garden (Venice High School) in Los Angeles, CA! We had about 40 people paid respect and appreciation to tree spirits. We had an introduction / lecture about Shinto and explain about ceremony program as […]

History Channel On Friday August 31st, 2018, our Shrine’s priestess, Rev. Izumi Hasegawa was in the History Channel to talk about Shinto and AI. Since in western countries, where AI is looked at with fear and at times for making weapons, but Japan sees AI and robots more as “friends,” rather than as tools for helping […]

We held Shinto workshop for foreigners on June 8th. We plan to hold this workshop again in May/June 2019. We also plan to organize Japanese mythology tour by Shinto priest near the future.

June 9th and 10, we held Kaki Taisai as well as the event of Let’s Kaiun.