Kami

With no doubts, The Tale of the Heike is one of the most influential, well-known and renowned classics in Japanese literature. Initially, the authorship of this work is unknown but it is known that The Tale of the Heike was compiled by blind monks in the mid 13th century. While reading, one may face numerous instances of dharma, the Buddhist law that claims that evil doings in the present will ultimately ruin the future of one's generations. Also, The Tale of the Heike incorporates the Buddhist…

Those poor people trapped in the middle of the ocean, go figure food and water would get scarce. So that's how we get the creation of Kami no Miyako, a walled in city for the rich and important while all the other are left outside in a dark, destroyed, chaotic world. Tokyo has become a place of violence and crime surrounding Kami no Miyako. They just sit there waiting for the sewage water and scraps, the high dining of the wasteland. While the rich sit inside their fortress with…

Metal music is a genre historically dominated by men. An all-female trio of teens, Babymetal’s music is a new combination of Idol pop, or J-pop (Japenese pop) and metal, a novel fusion of genres the group defines as “kawaii” (cute) metal. Babymetal’s first single was released in 2014, and “their debut album was the bestselling Japanese album in America in 2014” (Benjamin par 1). In a Nikkel Trendy interview, Babymetal’s producer, Kobametal, states he wanted to create a “Metal unit that would…

Okinawa is the Japanese Prefecture located at 26o 30'N, 128o 00'E. The main island sits in the Pacific Ocean and the East China sea, virtually isolated from major land masses; it is the largest of the 72- island chain. Okinawa is home to over one million people, the most densely populated island of the Ryukyu archipelago, with a vast majority residing in Naha city. Okinawa's islands are comprised of limestone and coral rocks; the limestone formation has resulted in many caves and, because of the…

seaman from Pep Nautica, encountered one maritime accident and it was grounding. He said that during the time when he was onboard in a General cargo ship, they ran aground because of the negligence of the pilot. He stated that “nagdiskarga kami sa Cambodia at pabalik kami ng Singapore, na aground ang barko namin sa Mekong river”. During that accident, their ship did not produce any alarm. It was happen in the year 1980’s. Luckily, there were no casualties and there were no damages to their ship.…

“I guess that’s the thing about a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to.”- Kami Garcia. Can a journey and the encounters one faces change a persons mind, thoughts and actions? In the Odyssey, Homer uses Odysseus’s journey to show how one’s journey can define them as a person. On Odysseus’s journey he has encountered many obstacles;…

Humanity use religions as an alternative to explain the unexplainable, at times disregarding certain aspects of scientific studies about the natural world. They give hope to the living and comfort to the dying. The human brain attempts to make sense of the world around us through categorizing and compartmentalizing information for processing. This is what drove ancient civilizations to incorporate the worshipping of deities in day to day life. They did not have the ability nor the resources to…

WHAT IS SHINTO Shinto is a religion unique to the Japanese people. Shinto is undeniably a religion unique to the Japanese people. It is a natural religion born and nurtured in the Japanese islands, unlike Buddhism or Christianity, which are world religions that have come to Japan from foreign countries. Certainly, the influences on Shinto from Buddhism, Confucianism or Chinese culture cannot be denied. Their influences on Shinto have been very distinctive, particularly in the area of…

entities seem to live in the mountains but there is a connection through the natural world by the yamabito. The yamabito are mysteriously characterized mountain man that people are afraid of because of their desire to be one with the natural world and kami. People being afraid of the mountain man just goes to show that anything associated with the mountains are feared. The woman in the episode goes on to describe how the man that took her appeared as an ordinary person but the color of his eyes…

It is believed that Emperor Jimmu was the first emperor of Japan and resided in the capital city of Kyoto. However, the aristocracy fell marking the beginning of military rulers called the Shogun. Also, during this time the Shogun developed a caste system putting them at the very top. After a succession of the Shogun, the Azuchi-Momoyama period began with the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which also brought back the feudalist system (“Fact of Japan,” 2015). In 1867, the Tokugawa…