Summer vacation 1

 - 御垣内(Mikakiuchi) -

At Ise Jingu, the main shrine is surrounded by layers of walls called tamagaki (玉垣). A form to pay a reverence inside these walls guided by a priest is called Mikakiuchi sanpai.

This time, I wanted to offer my gratitude for letting me publish the extraordinary photos I was able to take of Ise (title: 太陽と大自然の神々の地、伊勢 – The land of Kami of the sun and the great nature.) 

I also applied for the Daidaikagura (大々神楽) to pray for prosperity of the nation and the Mikakiuchi sanpai to pray for peace of the nation and longevity for the Emperor.

Thanks to the readers of my books, I was able to apply for these deluxe formal ways of visit. I would like to return the favor to you by reporting about my trip.

The trip went without unusualness except for one incident. When I was standing right under the Naka-no-e-no-torii gate in front of the Naigū main shrine, I felt a strong ocean wind on my entire body. The main shrine was certainly the ocean and it was as if the ocean sent me the breeze. My family members didn’t seem to have recognized it.

Until the Meiji era, Ise Jingu did not officially allow personal donations or prayers. The shrine was a place solely to pray for peace and prosperity of the nation and it was managed by the government and all expenses came from tax.

Meiji Emperor was the one who changed the system that ran for nearly two thousand years. He opened Ise Jingu to the public and let the people donate and pray for their personal wishes. Thanks to his idea, today, Ise Jingu does not need government support but manages the entire operation by donations from the people.

If the prime minister changes, due to economic crisis the budget might be cut down which may influence the management of Ise Jingu. Meiji Emperor had predicted such case over a hundred years ago and turned the finance around to rely on the people instead of the government. If he hadn't done it, Ise Jingu may not have existed for so long.

Today without relying on tax, Ise Jingu has more than enough donations to be ready for the Sengu held once in every twenty years. Instead, the excessive donations might be donated to help the government finance or the government might start to impose tax on donations to religious organizations.

In any case, the impression I had at the Naigū is that this place is rock solid protected by the breath of Kami. It felt so powerful that nothing could change its existence.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Turtleneck exercise is effective

Sit on a chair and straighten your back and stretch your chest. Your arms are relaxed. Take a deep breath from your abdomen and bring your shoulders up like a turtle pulling down its neck inside his shell. Then breath out from your abdomen while bringing down your shoulder and stretching up your neck.  At the end, breath out completely. Repeat this turtleneck exercise several times. This is my favorite exercise these days. I do it about one set every hour. When I do this very slowy with deep breathing while I stretch my neck up and down, it makes my head clear and I don’t get sleepy.




When I’m working on the computer, I try to keep my neck out and stretch it up. The image is as if someone is pulling my head up from above. I sense my life power is getting charged when I do this. I feel it would be very dangerous to use a belt or someone else stretching your neck.  It is always better to make a good habit to do it by yourself on a daily basis. Especially the neck has all the most important nerve bundles and blood vessels. It’s best to work it on your own.

People who work in an office all day have the tendency to put stress on their neck. That would bring bad circulation to your entire body. In fact, stress on the neck would cause constipation. So please be conscious about stretching your neck in your daily working hours. If you are constipated it will help solve your problem and at the same time make your head clear.





Turtle is indeed an interesting creature. The hexagon shape of the shell is a sacred shape. I have taken a photo of the hexagon that appeared in Ise. It is in my photography book (太陽と大自然の神々の地、伊勢). The hexagon is still used as a sacred crest in ancient Izumo and Hakusan line of Shinto shrines.






In Ko-shinto, there was a ritual to burn a turtle shell and see the appearing shape to read a revelation. The legend of Urashima-taro also talks about a turtle being the messenger between the god’s world and the human realm.

Today, there are foreign turtles in the river that has bitten people. Maybe this is trying to tell us something. We must find a way to coexist with mutual prosperity.



Kami is trying to show us the right path to peace through figures and conditions in the nature. Today, there are too many people with neck problems. Lets start by stretching the neck and feel refreshed like the turtles. By doing it daily, you will start to find the way to solution.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around you so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Ego will bring suffering

As long as you deny your current situation either about work or private life (or both), the condition will not changed. It’s good to have dreams and ideals but if you deny the now, you cannot get close to your dreams. It’s because the future is at the head of the continuous now moments. The future is built by every step of present times.  Therefore, denying the now is to deny the future.

The key to everything lay on the now, the present. If you could be in harmony with the current situation, your future would become a good one.

Even the situation looks very bad, as long as you are alive, there is always something to be grateful about. Be grateful that you are alive and simply continue to do what you should be doing.  A change for the better might come quickly than you think. If you give up on your present, you are giving up your future too. Be responsible on your acts and thoughts.

There is a saying in Japanese, “the neighbor’s yard looks more green”. Most people are hungry for “more” that creates ego. To those who are satisfied with the present situation and those who are in gratitude can see the neighbor’s yard as simply another garden, nothing more nothing less.

Romance is the same. Other people’s lover looks more attractive. But once you abduct the lover, you are no longer so interested. The executed Saddam Hussein favored married women as his lovers. It is said that he had few hundred lovers. The married wives had their own loving family. But the more he tried to refuse them the more they became obsessed with him. This is exactly a work of an evil that destroys everything.  I sense that he was brought up in a broken family and his mother had relationships with more than one man. The reason why he favored married women comes from lack of receiving motherhood.  He was hungry and obsessed for mothery love.

Don't think that your will stop growing if when you are satisfied with the present. In fact, when you could appreciate the present, you can grow more because you are vital to work more toward the future.

As long as you are complaining about your current situation, you are wasting a lot of energy and nothing will do you good. If you could accept the present and be grateful, it is so much more efficient.

You must ride along this World of Reality with the sense of gratitude. “Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu” is the frequency of energy that you can bring to the other world and lead you to true happiness. It is the best and the shortest way to be in the safety zone. These words (kotodama) will take you back from ego to true-self.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around you so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Thank you for reading this blog. Next update will be on August 24th.

Signs for Peace

(written August 11th)

There are changes happening in the natural order on Earth. In Japan, the disaster has been diminished to a minimum. August 10^th was another one big spiritual turning point.

Around August 10^th, seven planets including Earth were in alignment. It was introduced on Kyoto Shinbun newspaper. I sense another spiritual door has been opened towards people’s heart.

From last weekend, the revelations I received in the mornings were all apocalyptical contents. I was concerned that many people would worry too much but now decided to reveal them for a good reason.

1.  A sign was given that the days where one thousand people would die from natural disaster daily.

2. A sign - when there are more days where the moon would look reddish, the sunspots on the sun would be increasing immensely and the sun would look black from it. The electro-magnetic waves from the sun at this point would be extreme.

3. A sign – when the moon is red, it is emanating a signal to induce the other moon. The second moon would appear all of the sudden like it had space warped from another dimension (when this happens science and social values would be shaken a great deal).

4. A sign - a big evil spirit that eats human souls that lives under the earth of Russia and China from the very ancient time will start to be smoked out by the power of the sun.

Just to explain my revelation roughly, these are the visions I received. The future is not fixed so it is not a fact but potentials that these things might actually happen.

It is possible to change these futures and make it less drastic. It all depends on our consciousness.

When more people start to have a natural sense that they are led to live and have the sense of gratitude, the society will for sure move to a good direction. Our consciousness will be reflected on the great nature and the universe. This is why I am doing this 5% campaign.

When we look at the human history, after a period of peace we have always started war to expand territory and prosperity. Paradoxically speaking, we had a social background that was able to prepare for war. However, once natural disasters start to happen everywhere, we will have no time to prepare for war.

We must prepare to help countries that suffer from natural disasters. Some countries might try to take advantage of the situation and take over.

Japan must continue to stay as one of the countries that can give help to the suffering countries. It all depends on our consciousness. If the people of the country have negative or egoistic mind, the country would suffer from natural disaster. Japan was created to help others. This was decided in the super ancient times.

The virtue of Japan in making a product is to have pride, concern and care about the very little details that is not visible from the outside. That is the reason why it sells. The same reason can be applied to life. When you have concern and care toward your invisible ancestral spirits and regional kami you will be safe. Your region will be safe. The peaceful days will come.  

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around you so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Caisson Disease

(written on July 16th)

This morning, the words “caisson disease” came into my mind. It is a disease caused by scuba diving in deep ocean. “Describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurisation”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness) 

Deep ocean in Japanese is Shinkai (深海) and 神界(the World of the Gods) is also Shinkai. From either world, when you rapidly rise or descend to this dimension of reality, your blood pressure will rapidly decrease and cause bubbles in your blood vessel that may cause obstruction and in some bad cases lead to death.  When the deep-sea fish comes up to the upper-sea, it dies because of this same reason.

According to my revelation, because the sunspot is increasing every month, the electro-magnetic waves from the sun will eventually create similar symptom as the caisson disease. Instead of coming out from the ocean, it will be coming from the sky (the sun).  We might suffer from caisson disease just by standing on earth.

When I was researching about the caisson disease, I found out that the symptoms are much like the general malaise. General malaise is increasing every year today and the causes are uncertain.

The symptoms are: 1. itchiness or sudden rash on the skin. Some kind of marks appearing on the skin. 2. Pain or discomfort in the joint (arm or leg). Sudden pain on joint of a finger.  3. Discomfort or pain in the heart. 4. Dizziness, decrease in eyesight or consciousness. Heaviness or numbness on the lower half of one’s body. 

From now on, there will be many people who suffer from these symptoms. I simply hope that when people start to feel these symptoms in their own body that they would stop going to fee charging healers and religious gatherings. It will only make it worse.









In fact these symptoms are starting from the fee charging so called sensei (thought to be a master healer). Starting from this year, I have heard many of them disappearing (dead) … caused by heart attack, cancer, accidents.. etc. Please do be careful. Through the strong electro-magnetic waves from the sun, the spiritual filth/grime would react the most toward the divine energy. 




So what should we do when we experience these symptoms?  First of all, go to a hospital and have your blood tested and any other necessary parts examined. In most cases, the test results will come out with no problem. Then please be at ease. And do:

1. Send gratitude kuyō towards ancestral spirits, send gratitude to Amaterasu-ohomikami (Sun Goddess). Visit Ise Jingu if you live in Japan.

2. Drink 2 liters of warm water (about the same as your body temperature) daily with a pinch of sea salt in every cup (apprx. 250cc) you drink. Depending on your diet, adjust the amount of salt. Make sure you take enough salt especially during the hot summer. Fatigue could worsen the symptom.

3. Do Ryman style exercise (introduced on blog date: April 11th) and Ryman style Harai (introduced on blog date: August 4th). It is important to make it a habit. It’s better to do it every day just for 15 minutes than doing it few times a week. This will stabilize your blood stream and prepare to adapt towards the spiritual caisson disease symptoms.

4. Try to breath deeply from your stomach in your daily life. If you are already suffering from the symptoms try to take it easy. Don’t worry and try to do these exercises in your comfortable pace.  You will get better.

Once you clear these symptoms, your body will start to feel very light and invigorating. This morning, once again, I felt very light and exhilarating. If I continue to do this, I might be actually floating one day (laugh). We are borrowing this body from god. Each and one of us have the responsibility to take care of it. When we succeed in doing so, our consciousness reaches the root god and one day, we will all suddenly ascent to the next level of consciousness. I am so looking forward to that day to come.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around you so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Thank you for reading this blog. Next update will be on August 17th.

Everything will be straightened

This morning, “neck-hernia” was the word that came into my mind. As the electro-magnetic waves from the sun increases, your posture will become important. Your backbones must be adjusted and straightened.

The light pillars that can be sensed at Mt.Haku and Ise are standing straight between the earth and the heaven.  From the ancient times, when we counted the number of gods, we used to write as one pillar(柱), two pillars(柱) …  for one god, two gods. The reason why the ancient people called the gods as pillars is because they were able to see the light pillars descending from the heavens.

We humans are meant to stand straight having the hara (abdomen) as the center of the body. But many of the modern day people have a very bad posture. Until now, you were able to live with bad posture but from now on, it will become a problem. As the electro-magnetic waves from the sun increases, you will start to feel discomfort and necessity to adjust your backbones.  Not only your backbones but your thought and action must be straightened out as well. Otherwise, you will create problems. So please watch out.

Until now, I thought that only religious beliefs and the mind would be corrected, but now I understand that the physical body would also experience readjustment. It is natural to think when the world changes the physical body would change as well.

I spend most of my day sitting on a chair. At my office, some days I had to be looking at the computer screen for many hours and the screen is a little higher than my line of sights. The next day, I could feel some discomfort in my arms and legs. 

When I think about what I did to have caused this discomfort, I knew it was my posture looking up a little giving stress on my neck. The nerves around the neck are very sensitive and it could influence your entire body.

You may have noticed on the statues of Buddha or any kind of Zen monks, their eyes are always looking a little lower and never higher. At school, we have always looked down towards our desk. We are not used to looking up higher than our eye line for a long time.

I often feel that the modern disease such as general malaise has a lot to do with having problems in the cervical vertebra. The symptoms of hernia on the neck would be numbness on arms and legs. It often happens on one side of one’s body. It may also cause migraine, poor eyesight, and/or discomfort in the heart.

People are sleeping 1/3 of the day. If you have a stoop, low pillows may be giving stress to your back. It’s better to have a large thick pillow so it starts from your shoulders and supports the entire lower back of your head. Watch your eye lines while you are working. Facing higher than your eye line for an extensive amount of time could be dangerous.

I’ve asked doctors and osteopaths how to take care of one’s neck. And another idea from the specialist is to role a bath towel and put it under your neck without using a pillow. The top of your head would be slightly lowered. When I look at old paintings such as an Ukiyoe, in the old days, people used very hard wooden pillows in Japan. It looks painful but it actually might be good for the neck.

People sleep average of eight hours everyday. The posture during this long sleeping period would influence our body immensely. So pillow and mattress would be so much more important than having some short treatments once in while. Everyone has different shapes and curves. Look for the right type of pillow for yourself.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around you so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Ryman-style exercise for Harai

I was passionately working on my daily exercise (introduced on April-11^th blog) before taking a bath.  To tell you the truth, there is one more exercise that I hadn’t mentioned earlier.

First I start with my hands on my waist and stand straight. Then, I step half step forward with my knee bent and bring it back. I do the same with the other leg. As I repeat this, the steps become bigger. When you bring back your leg, try to move smoothly as much as you can. You might loose your balance in the beginning, but if you continue doing this work-out, I sense that the center of your body (the path of Shinki-神気 - divine energy) will come into balance. Once your body is in balance, the movement becomes smooth and graceful. Don't over work in the beginning. Make sure you stretch your Achilles tendon before you start. 

One night when I was working on this movement, a reijin (霊人), a spirit, who is a master of swords appeared in my psychic vision. I hadn’t seen him for a while. He told me something very interesting.

He told me that as I’m stepping forward, I should put my hands together and swing from top of my head downwards. It’s like the Kendo (Japanese fencing) practice swinging your arms up and down but with your palms together. As I was trying the movement as he told me to do, I could hear the sound I heard at Ise Jingu. It’s the sound like the flying large wasp or an overlap of several low sounds of a bowstring instruments. I hear this sound when I go to a shrine filled with Shinki -divine sacred energy.

When I completed my exercise, I felt a great purifying effect.

Along with the gratitude sending towards your ancestral spirits and Kami, if you do this work-out it will be even more effective.

*The hands that are put together can be like two center fingers pointing out or all fingers together. Do it whichever way you prefer.

*Another important point is to move your leg smoothly. Close to suri-ashi, almost sliding your leg and try to make less noise as possible as you move. Very gently put your leg on the floor.

*The knees should be in a 90degree angle when you are stepping forward. So your upper body will come low.

*As you swing down your arms, say “Ehi!” out loud. This will bring harai (cleansing/purify) effect.

* Bring back your body gently and smoothly.

This time when he came to me, I noticed that this reijin was a two swords master. The balance of both right and left of his body was completed perfectly. He could use both arms equally with very fine skills. He was just like Musashi Miyamoto.

He also mentioned about his regrets during his lifetime. He regret being in contact with city cultured people and new religion followers. He was a pure country boy. He said he was watching out choosing whom to get close to, but failed to make the right choices. He also mentioned about a frightening incident of some foreign religious group approaching his family but this cannot be revealed in detail.

In the Japanese Mythology, Amaterasu-Ohomikami was entrusted to keep a Shinken (神剣), the Divine Sword from Susanoo.

As you can see in the photo book I published of Ise Jingu, Izawa-no-miya is where Amaterasu-Ohomikami resides. You can see the nichirin (circle of light) of Amaterasu.

Izawa-no-miya is where she holds the sacred sword that cuts off bad/evil mind.

The *ken-barai-fuda (剣祓札) is a charm equivalent to a kami-fuda (神札).

When I receive permission from the divine, at a proper timing, I will reveal the secret of the shape of this divine sword.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around you so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

*Ken-barai-fuda 剣祓札：Direct translation is sword-purify-charm. A rare charm sold specially at The Grand Shrine of Ise (or Ise-Jingu). It is rare because it has a special kind of tree bark wrapped on the top of the wooden piece inside the charm that is the old traditional way of making a proper charm.

Time will solve your problem

If you are worried or troubled about something, try to look at the problem from a distance. When you are absorbed in the situation, you’ll become narrow-minded. You will be so caught on the target of your problem and could be missing out something more important. This will create a second problem. Make sure you are not so caught in one small narrow mind. Otherwise you will sooner or later create another new problem.

When you think about the problem and cannot find a solution, stop thinking about it for a while and simply concentrate on the work that needs to be done.

Some things need time to be solved. It has to do with the karma of that matter. When you loose patients you will bring more trouble. It’s like mountain climbing. When you are lost in the mountains, it’s best to stay where you are, stay calm and maintain your energy. There are more chances of mishap, when you become anxious and try to move around too much. It is the same for daily life problems.

You do need to think about the problem, but once your have done that and cannot find a solution, just leave the problem aside for a while and focus your mind on something else. From that moment, your subconscious mind will start to work on it in a spiritual level.

When you are obsessed with a problem, you are actually only worsening the situation. When you can loosen your grip a little bit, then you are creating space for the spiritual effect to come in.

Anything that is activated on a subconscious level comes from your god part of self, away from ego. When it is meant to be given to you, you will receive the answer at the right time.

Overall, when you keep on acting through your strong good will, your subconscious power will be strengthened at the same time and help you when you need it.

But when you are not using your good will, meaning not trusting yourself and instead use some magical power tools or reply on new age “law of attraction” type of concept, you are weakening yourself. You are weakening your life itself.

How do we nurture our good will? Just have compassion to yourself and everyone and continue to act on it.

This will be a kūyo toward your ancestors. This is how you should be showing your gratitude towards the whole family of human race. Trust yourself, trust your good will and stay strong. The true successor of this world is he who keeps acting on his good will until the end.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live