A few weeks ago there was a national holiday in Japan and I spent the morning touring Atsuta Shrine with one of my friends. Atusa Shrine is a famous Shinto shrine in Nagoya and the morning we went was cool, sunny and beautiful. Sharing the beautiful grounds with us that day was a boy/girl scout bazaar, a class of adults learning about Shinto and hundreds of Parents and their children. In Japan it is customary for parents to bring their children to the shrine to be blessed when they are 3. 5 and 7 years old to pray and this was a specific day for that. There was such a sense of the Holy in that place. I know I will go back before I leave Japan.
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