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.