Seasoning the Seasons
Season 1 • Episode 6: Suwa: A Celebration Down Through Time • Watch with subtitles
Episode 6: Suwa: A Celebration Down Through Time
June 6, 2012
Suwa was a center of culture in Japan in the Jomon period before rice cultivation arrived. It is said that in those ancient times, too, people transported many great tree trunks for erection at their sacred places in much the same way as we see at the Suwa shrines today. The environment was harsh and life and death so close for the people of Jomon times. Their spirit lives on in Suwa today. We introduce people who preserve a faith at the roots of Japanese prayer.
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