Tomorrow (June 21, Saturday) is the 32nd Coney Island Mermaid Parade. The Mermaid Parade, a moderately venerable tradition dating back to 1983,describes itself as“the largest art parade in the nation”, and celebrates the old time beachfront, boardwalk, carnival sideshow culture of the neighborh...
In his first account of the sutra’s translation, Zhisheng specifically indicated that “the mountain is a place where immortals and saints roamed and dwelt”, and that Huaidi “had also roughly learned the nine philosophical schools and seven bibliographical classifications [of Chinese culture]”....
In this context, we once again see the nature of the relationship between onmyōji and court physicians with regard to how ritual and hemerological culture imported from China was split between the two in a way that was flexible and unsystematic. In this section, I will focus in particular ...