All living things are a part figure of a god

 In my photo book that was recently published, I have disclosed the true nature figure of Amaterasu-ohomikami who resides at Izawa-no-miya or Izōgū (伊雑宮) at Ise Jingu. (http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4270005807）

This energy form, the figure of Amaterasu-ohomikami is the closest to the tenth dimension, the highest level in the World of the Gods I have ever seen.  As the level of the dimensions goes down, the deities would be in seen in a human like form. When it is seen in a human like figure, they are called Jinkaku-shin (人格神).  One deity exists in many levels in different frequencies. For example, in the fifth dimension, Amaterasu-ohomikami could be seen in a princess like figure wearing the twelve layer kimono. In the big festival held at Izōgū, she could be seen in a mermaid like figure.

 The day I took this photo, it was rainy all through the night and even when I arrived in Ise. But as always, once I start to walk through the passage, the sun starts to appear. Ever since I started to visit, it has always been the same for over twenty years. I only visit Ise, once or twice a year, but when I do, it is always sunny.

On this day, what I was thinking as I was heading towards Ise was that “it’s time for the humans to remember the truth. The true identity of the human beings are one form of energy coming out from the an energy ball like the sun.”

When you look at the picture of the sun on a TV screen, you can see the magma like corona popping in and out from the sphere. The amount of time of the corona popping in and out, is just about the same as one lifetime of a human being. It is only a blink of an eye, when seen from the standpoint of the sun.

When I visit the main shrine of Izōgū, I always see a nichirin (the circle of light). I would always see this no matter what. And it proves that Izōgū has maintained its sacredness. Thanks to the people working at Ise Jingu.

The outer rim of the nichirin is undulating calmly. When I look at the waves of light very carefully, it is radiating numerous beams outwardly. I received a revelation that each of these beams is the life of a human being.

A lifetime of a human being is just a few seconds when seen in a larger scale. So relax. You are just one thin beam of light, trying to enjoy the experiences. Your journey was born from one Kami, and one day you are returning to her. Once you die, you will know the truth and you’ll say to yourself “oh my gosh, I wish I had enjoyed my life and helped others more.”  You think, “next time I will make right”, but once again, you come and forget and worry about things… creating problems.

So I was talking to Kami, isn’t it time for us to remember the truth?  Then she showed me the nichirin.

To be honest, this nichirin wasn’t there when I first took it. (|0|). I really looked carefully at all the thousand shots I had taken over the years and it wasn’t there. It was when I checked it the second time as I was going through the photos on my computer, one photo was popping out. I enlarged it and that is when I realize the nichirin. Everytime, I look at this photo, the nichirin looks different. It is still alive in the photo. I can only say that was Kami’s will to have this published.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Be the Cool Observer

After the solar eclipse that happened end of July, a new type of spiritual energy is flowing into the Chain of Islands of Japan.

During the past few hundred years, the main artery of the Dragon God (Japan) has been growing its blood streams from Tokyo to Kansai on the Pacific Ocean side. Industries developed where the main artery grew. And so did the population. The direction of the flow of the main artery has changed since last year from Tokyo - Kansai to Hakusan - Ise. The blood stream between Tokyo – Kansai is getting thinner. This means that the material civilization is shifting to a “heartfelt civilization”.


In ancient Japan, the sun rose from the Pacific Ocean and its spiritual energy ran from Izawa-no-miya of Ise through Mt.Asama (朝熊山) to Hakusan-Chukyo Jinjya (shrine). And Mt.Haku was breathing in the spiritual energy from the sun through this channel. The line between Izawa-no-miya and Hakusan-Nakai Jinjya was the Spiritual Path of the Sun for a long long time. It was a time when shrines didn’t exist. It was a pure sacred ground.

At Hakusan-Chukyo-Jinjya, there was something called Iwa-kagami (岩鏡). It was a mirror made out of a rock. In the ancient time, people used to make a mirror out of polishing a rock. At Izawa-no-miya, there is a stone pillar that is buried in the forest behind the main shrine. These are the religious remains left from the ancient days of Sun Worship.

This era was the time of “heart felt civilization.” The heart felt civilization was hidden and the material civilization started to come in front and continued for a while. From now on, the heart felt civilization is coming back.

From now on, Do Not Be Hurt or Be Afraid of economical problems or your family problems. Simply do what you can do in the now moment and don't forget to be in gratitude that you are led to live. Then be in trust and go with the flow. This will bring the best result.

Only your heart will live forever. What can be seen with your eyes will keep changing. Do not be attached to the material world. Be the cool observer. Be flexible.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 3

After visiting the Izawa Jinjya, we sent to Izawa-no-miya (伊雑宮). On the road towards Izawa-no-miya. I was experiencing a very heavy weight on my back. I understood it was Kunitsu-kami (国津神) and other gods who ended their lives. As I started to walk the sando path, one step at a time the heaviness seem to go away. When you come to the middle of the path, you will see a well in the forest. When I thought that Princess Yamato-hime-no-mikoto had also come here to purify herself before making a vow, I became emotional.

From Heian Period (794~), the local people had repeatedly claimed that Izawa-no-miya is in fact the main shrine to worship Amaterasu-Ohomikami. During the Edo Period (1603~), they claimed that the Naiku is a lower rank shrine and they were punished. Fifty village people were exiled and died leaving their sorrow behind.

The sai-jin (祭神), official god of Geku is Toyouke-Ookami (豊受大神). Toyouke-Ookami, Amaterasu-Ohomikami and Kunitoko-tachi-kami is actually one and the same. And the local Shintoist called Watarai Family claimed that these gods are the supreme gods. This family is local to the area where Izawa-no-miya reside. It shows that the local people were very passionate about the gods. 

Why were they so devoted to worship the gods? The answer comes from rice making culture. The area where Izawa-no-miya resides has always been a rice-making district from the ancient times. Therefore the local people were financially wealthy as well. When you are well off, you have more peace of mind and able to have the sense of gratitude towards the gods. Mysteriously, as long as they held the rituals and worshipped the gods, they never had problems in the rice production. Even when the other areas were not doing so good, they never had any kind of damage. This is because the goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami who brought rice (kome) into this world reside at Izawa-no-miya. This shrine existed way before Naiku was establised over two thousand years. If the scientists could dig the area and research the remains, I am sure they will find that the shrine already existed around the Jōmon Period (12000~ 3000 years ago).

Izawa-no-miya’s official god crescent is a kagome (篭目紋). Its design is identical to the Star of David, the Jewish symbol, but the history of the usage is much older in Izawa-no-miya.

There are common factors in the Hebrew and Japanese culture. In the Jewish tradition, “mana” is a food that grows inside a pot, a soul food that was given by World of God. “Kome (rice)” also increases its amount when it is bowled in a pot. I sense that “mana” and “kome” has a similar sound vibration. The word “money” originally comes from the word “mana” of the Jewish tradition. In the West Japan, they believe that the financial market is based on the price of rice. I think that god's idea of “money” is “food.” If you try to save too much food, it will eventually rot. Before it rots, it should be shared with others.

The word “mana” also exists in Hawai'i. Its meaning is “the divinity from the highest source.” I sense that in the ancient times, the continent that existed on the Pacific Ocean of today use to be the place of origin for rice farming. When that continent sank, people escaped to places like Hawai’i and Ise. Carrying the common ancient knowledge they had no choice but to travel to find a new home around the Pacific Rim.


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 2

“Alright, where shall we go next?” Mr.H is thinking… “There is a very old shrine by the beach in Toba. The road is very narrow and hard to get there. Do you want to try?” Something told me that I should go there. So we went. We went into the very narrow trail in the middle of the town. There was no sign about a shrine. Not only was it extremely narrow but very bumpy, up hills and down hills. I was so glad that no car came from the other side. Finally we were able to pass through the foresty trail and came to a small beach. We parked the car and walked towards the torii gate.

The shrine was called Izawa-jinjya (伊射波神社). The sando path towards the shrine was very long steep and old. The stairs were worn away. When I had climbed up about a hundred meters, I turned around. The blue ocean was there with the torii in front. Suddenly, a vision came to me. The scene was in the super ancient time. A creature was climbing up the path that I am walking right now. The creature’s top half is a man and bottom half is a crocodile. Her stomach is big. I can tell she is pregnant. The path, sando (参道), can also be read as “the birth path” (産道). The creature gave birth at the top of the hill where the shrine was standing. My retainer told me that this is “Toyotama-hime.”

Turtles and other creatures come to the sand to lay their eggs. This custom has been the same since the ancient times. I think the orginal meaning of Ubusuna (産土) is “the soil of a mountain.” The direct translation of Ubusuna is “the sand of birth.” Maybe because the soil in the mountain could better preserve the eggs than the sand near the ocean, the creature went all the up to the top of the mountain.

Ubusuna means "the sand for the birth.” From the vision, this idea became clear in my head.

Once before, when I had visted Kinpirak-gu (金比羅宮) in Shikoku, I also envisioned half man half crocodile creature going up the path towards a shrine.

In the super ancient times, I believe that in a short period of time, there were creatures like half man half crocodile around the Pacific Rim. Around this time, the world wasn’t still completely materialistic. The earth was still experiencing a dimension where creatures were half spirit half material.

In the Japanese mythology, we see half man half animal type of creatures. It looks like a cartoon and unreal, but it is simply showing the truth of the old days. The modern science is totally ignoring this fact. They will never come to understand the truth about the beginning of human race if they cannot accept that we used to be half spirit or ghost at one point.


This shrine, Izawa-jinjya (伊射波神社) has the same name as Izawa-no-miya in The Grand Shrine of Ise. These two shrines are not so far apart. Izawa means to “bring things in peace to make oneness.” It also hides a deeper metaphor about the goddess Kukuri-hime who brought Izanagi and Izanami together. The hidden key goddess in the Japanese history.

Toba is a wonderful place, full of shrines with living gods in existence. To be continued…

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Izawa-no-miya

Naigū is most famous at The Grand Shrine of Ise, but for me I only sense the emperor’s ancestral spirits. Driving half an hour from Naigū along the beach side, there is another shrine called Izawa-no miya. When I was drawn to go there, I was blessed to witness the Nichirin -Circle of Light of Amaterasu-Ohomikami. This was quite difficult for me to understand. The color was orangish-red. This shrine is located in a very unique place. The land is like a shape of a Kofun, the ancient Japanese keyhole shaped tomb mound, very old place.

Izawa-no miya is the only place I witnessed the Circle of Light of Amaterasu-Ohomikami. What I sensed then was that it came from the Continent of Mu, from easily over 15,000 years ago.

Today, this shrine, Izawa-no miya is still connected to the core of Amaterasu-Ohomikami.
Gegū is like the parent and Izawa-no miya is like the child.

The divine spirit Amaterasu-Ohomikami still resides at Izawa-no miya. This place is a miracle. According to my spiritual senses, it is older than Naigū. Moreover, the appearance of Amaterasu-Ohomikami is at the highest level, the tenth level.

However, please do visit the Gegū first. This is where it connects to the No Name – the Root, a most rare sacred place on earth.

When I witnessed the tenth level of Amaterasu-Ohomikami, it was an orangish-red Circle of Light with a flickering outer rim. What I sensed through that light was simply “a motherly affection”.

Izawa-no-miya is also known as Izou-gū.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Twenty years of visiting Ise - Part 4

After visiting the Gegū, looking at Asama-yama (Mt.Asama) on the right, which is one of the passing points of the sun, we drove the winding highway towards Izawa-no-miya. As we come close to the town, Isobe-cho, we started to see some stores lining on the right side of the road. As we drove down the hill, we saw two police cars stopping a car for speeding on the opposite side of the road. I felt sorry for the policemen to be working even on the Obon holidays. I told my family to remind me on the way back for not speeding.

Izawa-no-miya had expanded their parking lot since last year. The shin-den (rice field at a shrine), where the Otaue-shiki* is held, now had a roof in the area for the visitors to watch the ceremony. When I first visited the Izawa-no-miya twenty years ago on my bike lead by my god spirit guides, they didn’t even have a parking lot. I am happy to see the development happening every year and at the same time, reminisce about the modest looking old days. Even the eel restaurant, just before the main gate to the shrine, looks like they have renewed their signboard. Back then, it looked so shabby, it was hard to tell whether they were open or not.

We went through the Torri archway, cleansed our mouth and hands with the provided water and slowly walked toward the shrine. To me, the approach (san-do・参道) toward Izawa-no-miya always feels like a transbirth canal (san-do・産道). It feels like returning back to a mother’s stomach from the lower world. The main shrine would be the womb. When I send my blessing at the shrine, the nichirin (the circle of light) of Amaterasu-Ohomikami appeared in my mind as always. The calm and gently vibrational energy signified that nothing critical is going on.

For the God Spirit who resides at this shrine, this major turning point of time is just another phase, and it seems like serenely observing the eternal flow of time. Mother of earth is for sure a Big Mama with a steady nerve.

After visiting the Izawa-no-miya, we went to a French restaurant outside the main entrance of Gegū. Because it has been one and a half year since our last visit to Ise Shrine and spending time with my family, so I decided to give them a treat. We had a lunch menu that was 3500 yen each. Too bad I (the driver) couldn’t have a drink. [laugh] As we were leaving the restaurant, when I was at the cashier, I found a photograph on the wall. It was a photo of the Dai-Torii grand archway. The lower part of the photo showed a clear rainbow color orb. I thought it was very unusual to see a shot so clearly close to the ground.

Leaving our car at the parking lot of Gegū, we took the bus to go to Naigū (the inner shrine). On the way from Izawa-ni-miya to Gegū, we had seen how crowded Naigū is and we knew we didn't want to drive in there. (continue)



Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live



[Otaue-shiki - 御田植式 : Rice planting ceremony held at rice-planting time in May or June in all parts of Japan to pray for a good rice crop and successful harvest.]