Eight million ways to happiness : wisdom for inspiration and healing from the heart of Japan

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    • Yoda, Hiroko

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Eight million ways to happiness : wisdom for inspiration and healing from the heart of Japan

Hiroko Yoda

Tiny Reparations Books, [2025]

  • hardcover
  • ebook

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Summary:"A Japanese cultural historian shares a path to joyful living drawn from her nation's unique approach to spirituality and nature, offering a blend of memoir, cultural reporting, and practical guidance for anyone struggling to find balance in our turbulent modern world. Everyone's in the pursuit of happiness, but few know how to attain it. Millions around the world have turned to Japan for advice on finding their Ikigai, or summoning The Courage to Be Disliked. Japan's spiritual traditions hide in plain sight, forming the basis of so much of what we love about the country's culture. Without Japan's spiritual sustenance, Jiro wouldn't dream of sushi; Hayao Miyazaki's films wouldn't spirit us away; and Marie Kondo wouldn't spark joy. In her book Eight Million Ways to Happiness, Hiroko Yoda offers the culmination of her decade-long odyssey into the spiritual heart of her homeland. Readers follow Hiroko as she trains as a Shinto shrine-dancer, partakes in Buddhist funeral rituals, ascends holy mountains wi

収録内容

  • Part one: awakening: eight million Kami
  • The invisibles: Shinto
  • The harmony of conflict: Buddhism
  • Making friends with monsters: Shugendo
  • Part two: darkness: walking through hardship
  • Angry ghosts: Onryo
  • Belief without belief: Hanshin-hangi
  • Curating rituals: funeral Buddhism
  • Part three: rebirth: everyday spirituality
  • Love will travel: Kuyo
  • Rebirth: all roads lead to Kumano
  • Prayer and play: Asobi

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