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Photoworks - Installations
Urayasu no Mai
Photo: Paul Donker Duyvis - Japanese Shinto Ceremony (Amsterdam 2006)
Celebration Ceremony -25 YEARS ANNIVERSARY-JAPANESE DUTCH SHINZEN FOUNDATION
Urayasu no Mai
Photo: Paul Donker Duyvis - Japanese Shinto Ceremony (Amsterdam 2006)
Urayasu no Mai
Photo: Paul Donker Duyvis - Japanese Shinto Ceremony (Amsterdam 2006)
81st Grand Master of Yamakage Shinto (r) and Holland Saigu Guji (l)
Photo: Paul Donker Duyvis - Japanese Shinto Ceremony (Amsterdam 2006)
Omatsuri Kagura
Photo: Paul Donker Duyvis - Japanese Shinto Ceremony (Amsterdam 2006)
Shinto (神道, shintō?) is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. It involves the worship of kami (神, kami?), spirits. Some kami are local and can be regarded as the spiritual being/spirit or genius of a particular place, but other ones represent major natural objects and processes: for example, Amaterasu, the Sun goddess, or Mount Fuji. Shinto is an animistic belief system. The word Shinto was created by combining two kanji: "shin" (神, "shin"?)(loan words usually retain their Chinese pronunciation, hence shin not kami), meaning gods or spirits ; and "tō" (道, "tō"?), meaning a philosophical way or path (originally from the Chinese word dao). As such, Shinto is commonly translated as "The Way of the Gods".
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