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DAILY YAMABUSHI


When not to Uketamo

January 3, 2025

Avoid Premature Uketamo

Living in a Dying Japanese City

January 2, 2025

Whether by man or by nature, these buildings are disappearing. And they are disappearing fast.

Room for improvement

January 2, 2025

Plenty of it

Excuses with no backbone

January 1, 2025

The worst kind

More of the same

December 31, 2024

Means more of the same

No heroics necessary

December 30, 2024

Just endless discipline

Thank you, next

December 29, 2024

Bad for relationships, good for ideas.

FEATURE ARTICLES

Here are a few samples of what you find in my newsletter, Mountains of Wisdom.

Kumomi: The Next Japanese Sensation

Those clouds aren't going to watch themselves!

Japan is in the year 2683?

I asked the proprietor when the original temple was built.

Dealing with death: Some practical Yamabushi advice

Death is an everyday thing. So is living.

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Joining a Local Japanese Coffee Brewing Competition

Notice I didn't say 'winning'.

What does The Last Samurai have to with Japan’s Silk Industry?

Quite a lot, actually.

Don’t trust the chrysanthemums.

The forgotten festival and Japanese cultural faux pas #2934

The Land of Salmon and Sake: How Sakata (Sake Rice Field) got its name

Feat. Sakata Rice Crackers!

Autumn’s Peak Ritual 2024

Joining a Yamabushi Initiation Ritual

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How Cup Noodles and Kawaii Culture made Axolotls famous in Japan

At the time, The Unlimited Teddy Bear was watching footage of Minecraft axolotls in English when they realised the English word for Axolotl was, in fact, Axolotl.

Why do SHOGUN deserve their own shrine?

The warlord to end all warlords

What The Mountains of Japan Taught Me

Knowledge has nothing on experience

Chokai-san (Mt. Chokai)
The Dragon Deity and Japan’s Number One Rice

How a Dragon Kami gave us the best rice in Japan.

Chokai-zan
Japan’s Rothschilds and The Port City of Sakata

Why do I live in Yamagata? Why don’t I live in Tokyo or Osaka with the rest of them?

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Searching for your Ikigai? Read this first.

I left my Ikigai on Mt. Haguro

MOUNTAINS OF YAMAGATA

Here are a few posts of my adventures climbing the 100 Famous Mountains of Yamagata.

Yamabushi

Here are some blog posts about yamabushi.

A Jizo statue at the top of Mt. Kyogakura in Sakata
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