“Thank you, Dad in heaven.” 🎆
At Niigata’s Katakai Festival, fireworks are personal offerings to Asahara Shrine. People return from across Japan to mark milestones or remember loved ones—turning fireworks into a bond with home. ✨
Alongside familiar rows of crops 🌾🌾🌾, could a farm also take the form of a living ecosystem 🌾🦋🌳?
Welcome to the vibrant and diverse world of Synecoculture.
Press play and discover how it could offer another option for the future of food production. 🎥
Japanese swords, rice terraces, Wagyu and mushrooms—what connects them all? ⚔️🌾🐄🍄
In Okuizumo, iron-sand mining land shaped land into rice fields, cattle supported farming and transport, and forests found new uses. One craft helped shape a whole landscape. ✨
We’ve launched a new YouTube channel 📺
Explore circular energy, tech that reveals hidden infrastructure risks, farming with nature and more through video, audio and podcasts.
Several series are live ✨
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Cut from paper, connected to place. ✂️🙏
At 9 temples in Yokoze, #Saitama, goshuin become intricate paper-cut art inspired by local stories and scenery. 🎨
In 2026, Chichibu’s 34 temples hold a once-in-12-years Kannon unveiling—another gateway to an 800-year pilgrimage. ✨