January 8, 2015 · 9:42 am
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YOU KNOW YOU ARE BACK IN JAPAN WHEN THE MONKS FROM THE KENCHOJI TEMPLE ARRIVE UNEXPECTEDLY ON YOUR DOORSTEP FOR THE NEW YEAR PURIFICATION RITUAL

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8 responses to “YOU KNOW YOU ARE BACK IN JAPAN WHEN THE MONKS FROM THE KENCHOJI TEMPLE ARRIVE UNEXPECTEDLY ON YOUR DOORSTEP FOR THE NEW YEAR PURIFICATION RITUAL”

  1. filomena813
    January 8, 2015 at 2:09 pm

    I am imagining that the purification ceremony will also render all the perfumes youwear to be also more purified and fragrant!

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  2. Nelleke Oepkes. Aka Booknose
    January 8, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    Lovely. Listening to this puts my mind at rest, quite a feat. I’ll keep this for moments of unquietude ( is that right?). Thank you.

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  4. brielle87
    January 9, 2015 at 2:57 am

    That is such an amazing thing. Do you understand the chant they were chanting?
    All I have around my area are Christians who come to the door to find out if I know Jesus, because he seems to need a promotional agency or something 😉
    I do have to say how envious I am of your life in Japan. I adore when you post interesting little items such as this.
    Glad you are home safe and sound.

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  5. Nelleke Oepkes. Aka Booknose
    January 10, 2015 at 9:03 am

    hats, not parasols. Oh, what a moment of peace in this time of violence. Per fuma ad astra, indeed.

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    • ginzaintherain
      January 10, 2015 at 2:06 pm

      THe first time I heard it Nelleke, it was quite terrifying, as I think I had background music on and suddenly there was this music that sounded like the trip out part of Kubrick’s 2000 and one (the ‘one’ key on the computer is broken). I was genuinely startled.

      But it actually is quite soothing, and purifying, even if I have no idea what they are saying. I like living in proximity to all that.

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  6. Nelleke Oepkes. Aka Booknose
    January 13, 2015 at 8:38 am

    just let iT happen. It’s all you can do. But to me it sounded out of this world, as I sometimes wish to be, soothing , God’s in his haven and all’s right with the world.

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