https://exotericjapan.com Deep Cuts of Japan for the Idly Curious Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:37:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://exotericjapan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-512px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog-1-32x32.jpg https://exotericjapan.com 32 32 https://exotericjapan.com/events/okerasai-festival/ https://exotericjapan.com/events/okerasai-festival/#respond Sun, 29 Dec 2019 11:58:34 +0000 https://whatilikeaboutjapan.com/?post_type=mec-events&p=9566 Light Some Bamboo Rope For a Year’s Worth of Good Luck The Okerasai Festival at Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto on December 31st every year from about 7 pm to the wee hours if New Year morning is a unique event that reflects the culture of old Heian Kyo. ]]> https://exotericjapan.com/events/okerasai-festival/feed/ 0 https://exotericjapan.com/events/toka-ebisu/ https://exotericjapan.com/events/toka-ebisu/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2019 01:22:34 +0000 https://whatilikeaboutjapan.com/?post_type=mec-events&p=9582 Ebisu is a fishing god in western Japan and a fishing and agricultural god in eastern Japan. Ebisu Toka also is sometimes on January 20th, or in October.]]> https://exotericjapan.com/events/toka-ebisu/feed/ 0