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Pagan & Shinto News: Animation Studio That Popularised Shinto Shrine Hit By Deadly Arson Attack

Pagan & Shinto News: Animation Studio That Popularised Shinto Shrine Hit By Deadly Arson Attack

Last updated on: July 21, 2019 at 3:25 pm by Megan Manson

Pagan & Shinto News: Animation Studio That Popularised Shinto Shrine Hit By Deadly Arson Attack 2019-07-21T15:25:01+00:00 Megan Manson

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Shinto News

Kyoto Animation studio that popularised Shinto shrine hit by deadly arson attack
Japan Times
Places featured in the hit animation stories have become pilgrimage destinations for anime fans. Among them is Washinoniya Shrine in Saitama Prefecture, the setting for a scene in the TV animation series “Raki Suta” (“Lucky Star”) based on comics by Kagami Yoshimizu…

Gion Festival kicks off with Yamahoko parade
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Twenty-three Yamahoko floats, known as “moving museums” because of their elaborate decorations, paraded through central Kyoto on Wednesday as a highlight of the annual Gion Festival, one of the three most famous festivals in the nation…

Kyoto has a shrine that’s supposed to make you rich, so our reporter Mai tested its power
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Mikane Shrine is supposed to be able to make you rich. Even the kanji characters for Mikane, 御金, can alternately be read as “okane,” the Japanese word for “money.”…

Lost Art: the mysterious allure of Japan’s Three Sacred Treasures
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Religiosity of Japanese aesthetics
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Petition To Install Statue Of Irish Goddess In Athlone
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Proposals to install a statue of a Greek god in Athlone are being criticised for failing to Ireland’s own heritage…

Swaziland Bans Witchcraft And Magic Competition
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New Neolithic Burial Mound Found in Anglesey
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India: Two women among four killed on suspicion of black magic in Jharkhand’s Gumla
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A group of 10 to 12 masked men reportedly thrashed the four persons to death after suspicions that the two women victims were involved in black magic…

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