Shortly after moving to New Jersey, I became an instructor of the Children’s Japanese language classes for native speakers at Tenri Cultural Institute since I was once a teacher at elementary schools in Japan. After that, I obtained a master’s degree in Voice Pedagogy and Performance from a music college...

“Folgers in Your Shrine: Revisiting Tenrikyo” is a second interview by Rev. Michael Yuge, Executive Director of Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, with Sarah Walsh, a college student at Washington College. Her podcast is part of a series entitled “Come Pray with Me,” in which she interviewed guests from...

by Takahiko Hayashi Our basement room is filled with half-baked interior-redesign projects that quite never made it to the finish line. In the worship room, our new aquarium, with fishes adopted in March of last year, has spread itself out, along with used sanitization bottles of all stripes and colors...

In January of 2021, Rev. Michael Yuge, Executive Director of Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, was interviewed by Sarah Walsh, a college student at Washington College, for a podcast to answer questions about Tenrikyo and to share his thoughts on the teachings with her audience. Her podcast was part...

by Takahiko Hayashi In the early stages of the Coronavirus pandemic, government health officials urged us not to buy masks. Their reasoning was that these precious resources should be preserved for healthcare workers and that the masks will not prevent you from getting the virus. We were told that even...

By Megan Omoto Hi, I'm Megan Omoto from Seattle, Washington and in April of 2019 I started school at the Tenrikyo Language Institute in Jiba. I'm in the Japanese Language Course along with 36 other students from around the world. I decided to enroll to TLI after I graduated from...

By Tomikazu Okura I decided to join Oyafuse this year because I thought it was a timely opportunity for me to experience living at the Jiba. There were a couple of options for me here at the Jiba but I thought studying at TLI would be a nice transition rather...