and readily provided the bell without giving the matter a second thought. Miura’s late father, who served as a sub-lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy and took over the temple’s ...

The iconic Japanese dolls range from a couple of inches to several feet in height, and there are thousands of them at the 1,300-year-old temple, located about an hour from downtown Osaka in Minoh ...

Do you mechanically ring the bell when you visit a temple? If so, you may not know the spiritual significance behind it.

KYOTO--Priests at Chion-in temple here tolled a 70-ton bell, said to be one of Japan’s three largest temple bells, in a dry run to ring out a year overshadowed by wars overseas. The Dec. 27 ...

Amid vedic chants, the doors of the temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu were opened at 6 am. Fifteen tons of flowers of various varieties adorned the temple and the Indian Army played devotional music ...

The portals of Himalayan temple Kedarnath were opened on Friday, with more than 12,000 pilgrims attending the ceremony. The gates of the temple located at a height of more than 11,000 ft were ...

Seamless paper screens. Forest lights. Temple-inspired chairs. Purist bathtubs. A micro-house. Rippling tatami wall panels. And a washi-wrapped church interior. The presence of Japanese design was ...

the basin of water located at the entrance to temples and shrines in Japan where visitors are supposed to symbolically purify their hands before progressing further towards the main hall. The police ...

Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri showed her fall fashion collection of loose, minimalist styles in the garden of Toji temple in Kyoto ... including traditional Japanese textile company ...

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It seems that litti chokha is making a mark on the global culinary map as well. Recently, Japan's Ambassador to India and Bhutan, Keiichi Ono, took foodies by surprise when he shared a picture of ...