No holiday is special without decorations to set the mood for the season. Japanese New Year’s decorations, O-shogatsu kazari, are

Japan has dozens of festivals and holidays throughout the year, however, O-Shogatsu, or New Year’s, is easily the most important.

If you will remember from our mythology series, Izanami died giving birth to the god of fire. Grief-stricken by the loss

Suga Shrine [須賀神社] is a little off the beaten path. While the first two shrines we have visited during our

While many people visit Izumo Taisha to find their true love, there is another famous love shrine in Shimane. Yaegaki

Finally! After all that mythology, we are finally ready to go to Izumo! This is a place we have really

Okuninushi no Mikoto is essentially the Japanese god of civilization. Though he is the god of many other things, such

Rather than a stand alone myth, this story instead is a continuation of the events in the Rabbit of Inaba.