Most funerals in Japan are held in a Buddhist style. Japan’s Indigenous religion of Shinto is largely rooted in animism, which believes there are thousands of “kami,” or spirits, inhabiting ...

The Omoro Sōshi, a collection of some 1,500 songs written in the 16th and 17th centuries, is the oldest extant text in ...

Japanese animism meets jewellery in Harumi Klossowska de Rola’s third capsule collection for Goossens. Bracelets, rings and earrings are imbued with elegant lifelike forms for wearable artworks that ...