Hiroko Yoda
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But also...
that 20 years, they say, it's a good year, it's a good period to passing along skills, craftsmanship.
Because building specific Shinto shrines, weaving the materials, those require specific skills.
It needs to be passing along from master skills
to disciples.
So it's a way to keep people's skills, craft people's skills.
Yes, that is toku waka.
That's forever young because it never gets old because it's a person alone either recycling or handing down.
Yes, there are three major belief systems in Japan.
Shinto, Buddhism, and Shugendo.
Shinto, it's originated in Japan.
Buddhism, it came from a foreign country.
We adapted it.
It's a religion.
Shugendo, it's a mixture of different belief systems.
Shinto.
Buddhism and others, including Taoism.
And they believe the system centering around mountains.
And the Shugendo practitioners are called Yamabushi.
The translation for that is surrender of mountains.