Since ancient times, the people of Yamato have made order, civility, and simplicity their virtues.
My name is Amateru.
As a representative of Japanese Shinto, I, Amateru, am deeply honored to be able to greet you all, and I thank God from the bottom of my heart.
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I believe that the time has come for “Shinto” without the name of “Japan” to go out to the world, beyond the framework of “Japanese Shinto”.
Since ancient times, the people of Yamato have learned to live in harmony with the Yamato spirit, in harmony with nature, with order and decorum, and with simplicity as a virtue. Today, we may be materially rich.
However, the people of Japan have become poor and miserable in terms of civility, humility, and faithfulness to the gods, and have become so overflowing with things in their daily lives that they find the value of happiness only in material abundance, I am deeply concerned about this.
When people live a happy life, they need a lot of material things to be happy, and it seems to me that such a false teaching of the mind and values of the heart have taken root.
In these buildings and architectural styles, the beauty of nature is nurtured and enveloped by nature, and the beauty of nature is blended with nature in the simplicity of the wood, and in the feeling of the wood. is the faith and the way of life of “Yamato Shin”.
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Nature is the mind of God. It is the harmony of the universe.
Enveloped in it, with simplicity, and surrounded by the virtues of modesty, order, and civility, the Japanese Yamato people have lived happily. This was the beauty of the Yamato people.