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 […]

We held Saitan-sai on January 1st at Little Tokyo for praying everybody’s prosperity, safe and healthy life as well as world peace. We wish you a new year filled with prosperity and happiness! Arigato for all to come and pray at our booth. Arigato for volunteers to help our booth where was extremely popular in the […]

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 […]

We held the Aki (Autumn) Matsuri and 753  (Shichi-Go-San) ceremony.  At Aki Matsuri, we showed appreciation all harvest, success and improvement in 2018 as well as praying great harvest, success, improvement and world peace in 2019 to Kami / spirits. This is the traditional custom and culture which Japanese has been passing along from ancient. At Shichi-Go-San, we […]

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.