Miwako Yamamoto, 78, wife of Yukio, the Japanese Master Potter who was one of the initiators of the Tea Garden and Tozan kiln projects, lifts water to bless the ground during a Shinto ceremony. The ...

Mikagura performance For the first time in the continental U.S., Shinto priests from Japan performed the ancient spiritual ceremony of Mikagura in Portland's First Congregational Church. For the first ...

I can officially say I’ve attended my first Japanese Shinto ceremony. On Wednesday, I attended the grand opening of Marukome’s first American miso factory in Irvine. The Japanese food giant is the ...

"Everybody," proclaimed the Rev. Koichi Barrish as SakéOne employees passed out a toast at the sake brewery's annual Shinto blessing ceremony. "Everybody over 21," SakéOne President Steve Vuylsteke ...

I am so stressed helping my dear friends finalize the plans for their incredibly complicated wedding that I have begun to mumble to myself. Even more frightening, I am answering! What were they ...