Mystic Japan
Mystic Japan is where I translate the stories, the beliefs, and the cultural values that Japanese people live by every day, into English that the world can actually understand.
About Me
I’m Yumi, a Japan-based writer in my 30s. My fascination with Japanese spirituality started unexpectedly — while running my own business in my 20s, I noticed something in common among the most successful entrepreneurs I met: many kept a kamidana (a small household Shinto altar) and visited their local shrine every month without fail. That observation sent me down a rabbit hole of studying norito (Shinto prayers) and the quiet values behind them — gratitude, humility, and a kind of mindfulness I hadn’t paid attention to before, even though I’d grown up around it.
In my 20s I also traveled solo through many countries, which gave me a comparative lens on how different cultures approach faith, ritual, and everyday life. That combination — business, travel, and a slow return to my own culture’s spiritual roots — is what led me to start writing about it here.
I’m not an academic researcher. I’m someone who still visits shrines regularly for their quiet, solemn atmosphere, still does ohaka-mairi (grave visits) with my family, and keeps learning as I go. MysticJapan is where I share what I’ve learned along the way.
Author name: Yumi Furusho
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