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SteveMcCarty , 3 days ago to religion

After going to Awaji Island recently, where the founding gods of Japan are believed to have started creating the archipelago, our next trip was suitably to the Grand Shrines of Ise, which worship the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, also central to the national creation myth. The outer and inner shrines are 4 km apart, so this was the first time that I could enjoy the outer shrine for the first time as well. The founding gods were a male and female couple, as we found in various forms on Awaji Island. Our hotel was along the Ise Shima coast where there is a shrine with a sacred rope connecting husband and wife islets (third photo). Marriage on the rocks? This shrine is for you!

#travel #nature #Japan #Shinto #shrine #Amaterasu #goddess #architecture #mythology #religion #marriage #culture

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Close-up of the distinct Ise architecture
Meoto-iwa, on the Ise-Shima Peninsula of Mie Prefecture, is a shrine dedicated to the bond between husbands and wives
Enjoying a specialty of the Ise region with my wife, bonito sashimi on flavored rice, with local seaweed in red miso soup, vegetables, and cold tea for the summer.

SteveMcCarty , 1 month ago to linguistics

Good news on open access to my works on bilingualism, the research area related to my teaching, child-raising, and using Japanese for over 40 years. I was interviewed by The Japan Times on #bilingual #education for a forthcoming paywalled article. It was a long interview, and usually a newspaper article uses only short passages from one individual. However, the #Japan Association for #Language #Teaching Bilingualism Special Interest Group (#JALT #Bilingualism SIG) would like to publish the full interview in its newsletter Bilingual Japan. Everyone should be able to read that as I back it up in research repositories. The tentative title is "English Education and Bilingual Education in Japan."

My publications on bilingualism have been backed up mostly at Academia Edu, which is not so easy to access anymore [any comment?], so I've added links to the original sources of articles, which are open access, at https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism

#BilingualEducation #OpenAccess
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