Wonderings to begin with (November 30)
Within a week of the application deadline on November 15 the dozen seminar participants in the three-week study program in Mie-prefecture were notified and details for booking flights, meal restrictions, and so on were supplied for the timely arrangement for Feb. 20 to March 10, 2023. Reading about Shintoism through linked articles of (English) Wikipedia, as well as looking at the university host website with its past 10 years of participant summary reports helped to form a picture of the busy time ahead: mornings of classroom lectures and conversation, afternoons for fieldtrips to places presented on the Kogakkan campus in the morning. Others way to get to know the place include image searches at Flickr.com and Archive.org , as well as a look for "Irasuto Mappu" (illustrated maps of tour attractions, not drawn to scale), イラストマップ. Several informative Shinto books from the city library have been worth reading, too*. Google images for "Ise イラストマップ" (illustrat...