Japanese

Ten thousand vermilion gates climb a mountain south of Kyoto, packed so close together that the forest path turns into…

Walk the length of Sanjusangendo in Kyoto and a thousand and one gilded figures watch you go, row on row,…

For three days each January, a temple in Nara brings out a painting it keeps hidden the rest of the…

In the rich tapestry of Japanese mythology, there is the Japanese goddess Benzaiten. As goddess of all that moves and…

Izanami made an entire country by stirring the ocean with a spear. She died giving birth to fire. Then she…

The sun had shut herself in a cave, and eight million gods stood outside it in the dark, arguing. They…

The greatest goddess in Japanese myth once got so hurt that she quit. She walked into a cave, rolled a…