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DAILY YAMABUSHI


Appreciation in the Mundane

October 12, 2025

The Way it Should Be

What do you try to teach your children?

October 11, 2025

What do you most want them to know?

The Eccentric

October 10, 2025

Do the extraordinary

Supposed and Actual

October 9, 2025

Therein lies the difference

How to Understand Shugendo

October 7, 2025

The Way of The Yamabushi

If you can handle it

October 6, 2025

The one way to find out

The Two Mountains

October 5, 2025

Same mountain. Completely different experience.

FEATURE ARTICLES

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

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

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

Mt. Haguro's Five Story Pagoda
Japan’s Most Popular Destination You’ve Never Heard Of

The pilgrim's lodge village of Toge on Haguro-san

Tim Bunting Kiwi Yamabushi
Why do yamabushi do yamabushi training?

Yamabushi gotta yamabushi.

Why do Japanese Shrines have lightning-bolt tassels?

Plus the scientific basis behind it all.

The real star of Japanese cuisine

How this humble plant made it to the top of my list of Japanese foods

Uketamo and What The Mountains Teach You

Stop for a moment to be in the moment

One with the Mountains

In your element, in the elements

Tim Bunting Kiwi Yamabushi
The Futodasuki Yamabushi Sash

Why do Shinto yamabushi wear the strange vermillion sash? What special meanings does the Futodasuki hold? What does the mirror represent?

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.

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