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  • Shinto Controversies Course — 6th Lecture

    The sixth lecture of the Shinto Controversies course at Kokugakuin was held yesterday. This time, Professor Okada only barely got on to the controversy part, because explaining the background took most of the lecture. Fortunately, the controversies involved are easy to understand once you understand the background, so while it would have been nice had…

  • Fudatenjinja

    Every year the Kokugakuin Shinto course organises a formal shrine visit for the students on the course. This is optional, partly because it isn’t covered by the course fee, but also because it involves an extra day coming to Tokyo. Since some people apparently travel enormous distances to attend the lectures, the extra thing should…

  • Video of Mayuki

    Mayuki is advertising Pentax cameras again. Once again, the videos were taken by Sonoe. Yes, this time it’s videos, because the camera in question has video built in. The video is also embedded in this entry, but the one on the Pentax site seems to be better quality, if a little slow to download and…

My Old Pages

These are links to my old webpages, from back before I moved to a wordpress-powered blog. Back when I wrote the HTML by hand in a text editor. Yes, really. The formatting on some of the pages has broken a bit, and there are newer versions of some of the content in the current part of the site. Nothing here is maintained, nor likely to have anything done with it in the future.