PHOTO GALLERY: Shrine in Japan offers solace to those at home.
In this May 8, 2020, photo, Ryoki Ono, head priest, performs a livestream prayer during a 10-day trial of "online shrine" visit program at Onoterusaki Shrine in downtown Tokyo, allowing its visitors to join rituals from their homes. The shrine also accepted from worshipers their prayer messages, which were printed on a virtual wooden tablet each and offered to the Shinto gods to keep away evil spirits and the epidemic.
The shrine also accepted worshippers’ messages, which were printed on a virtual wooden tablet and offered to Shinto gods to keep away evil spirits and the epidemic. Watching the priests perform the purification rites, she felt as if she was at the shrine, Zama said. When one of the priests faced the screen and waved a religious paper streamer, she would bow. It was like her prayers were answered, she said.
Shinto is Japan’s indigenous religion that dates back centuries and it literary means “the way of kami,” which refers to Shinto gods or spirits. It’s a form of animism that believes in sacred spirits residing in living things and nature, including wind, rain, mountains, trees, rivers and fertility.
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