Author Archives: Lukas Wilde

We had such a great plan for today: wake up at 6.30h, start a two hour trainride to Mount Gozaishô, do some 700m ascent to what must be the greatest peak around Ise, take the last ropeway back (the longest … Continue reading →

Fresh and genki again today! A beautiful sunny day, and because it is additionally a Saturday, we engaged in kengaku. This means literally “learning by looking”, so: field trips! At first we visited a local factory where kamaboko is produced, … Continue reading →

After Naikû yesterday we went to Gekû today: The Outer Shrine. In principle, this is the less important one of the two and it was probably established some centuries later only (so we are talking about the 4th or 5th … Continue reading →

Today, after days of preparation, we have finally been to the Naiku (kôtai jingû), the Inner Shrine. Except, of course, that you can not actually “go there” or see it, since this is only allowed to the Tennô and the … Continue reading →

Now for the main purpose that you would expect from some kind of travel blog. What kind of place is Ise? I’ll try answering that with what you could call “anecdotic evidence”. Today, me and some of the people wanted … Continue reading →

So, let’s get started about this whole shinto thing. Everything here is about shinto. The university exists, more or less, just to produce shinto priests (kind of like a huge catholic seminar). The classes today and yesterday were mostly about … Continue reading →

It’s only little more than 24 hours since the airplane touched ground, but it already feels like a week. After a pretty comfortable flight I arrived in Nagoya yesterday, where 13 other foreigners from all over the world and myself … Continue reading →

So, let’s start with a fine selection of Wikipedia-knowledge, enriched by some basics facts from Ôbayashi Taryôs “Ise und Izumo: die Schreine des Schintoismus”  (1983; Japanese family names will be given first, as usual) – let us assume my understanding … Continue reading →

My name is Lukas Wilde, I am a media scholar from Tuebingen University, Germany (learn more about myself at our department’s page or at my private site). From February 19 to March 12, 2017, you will find daily updates about my … Continue reading →