Hiroko Yoda
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We have so much responsibilities and we have such a busy life.
So it gives a moment.
And it helps.
It helps me.
There are those.
I call it those icons, like the gate, for example, torii gate.
Two pillars, two bars on the top, torii gate.
That is basically an icon that you are entering to a holy ground, Shinto shrine ground.
And then you will see shimenawa rope.
It's a woven rope and had the white paper, the folded white paper hanging on the rope.
And if you see that,
that is icon, it's telling you that whatever that the rope is around, it's worthy to respect.
Sometimes it's a huge tree.
Sometimes it's a rock.
It's worthy to respect.
There also, there's a mirror.
It's, I'm not, see, I cannot say all Shinto shrine has mirrors, but some shrines have a mirror.
And it's quite shocking because you go to the holy ground and probably you respect something, you know, very ritual thing.
But there's only a mirror.
So it's a mirror.