Trees have many interesting features and uses, but it's perhaps their height that inspires the most reverie. Humans may have a lot of cool tricks, but we'll never grow to be 35 stories tall.

incense-laden religious rituals that revere the gifts the gods bestowed upon the “land of trees.” Buddhism, Shintoism, sacred pilgrimage routes, dramatic landscapes and architectural wonders c ...

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“I am happy because the ume tree that means more to our shrine than anything else will be passed down still through many more generations,” said Kusuhiko Higashikawa, a priest with the Shinto ...

An artist dressed as Sarutahiko, a Shinto god who helps and watches over travelers in Japanese myth, prepares to march during the annual Shinto festival called the Grand Festival at the Kotohiragu ...

As far as Shinto shrines go (there are about 400 in ... pervading quiet coupled with the fading light filtering through the trees and torii gates makes for an eerie and spiritual experience.

The Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership was formed in 1969 as an affiliate of the Association of Shinto Shrines, an influential group representing about 80,000 shrines nationwide.