{"id":60650,"date":"2026-04-20T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/?p=60650"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:32:04","slug":"ryuiki-sensing-the-living-workings-of-all-existence-as-kami-rediscovering-japanese-culture-as-a-path-toward-regenerative-futures-in-the-daisen-watershed-part-1-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/2026\/04\/20\/ryuiki-sensing-the-living-workings-of-all-existence-as-kami-rediscovering-japanese-culture-as-a-path-toward-regenerative-futures-in-the-daisen-watershed-part-1-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryuiki: Sensing the Living Workings of All Existence as Kami\u2014Rediscovering Japanese Culture as a Path toward Regenerative Futures in the Daisen Watershed (Part 1 of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
So, this is it, I think. We have always been sustained within this web of connections.<\/blockquote><\/figure>\n

How might humanity reweave its relationship with a fraying world and rebuild a regenerative civilization that can flourish alongside the living Earth?<\/p>\n

Such thoughts were crossing my mind as I walked through the mountains.
\nNo\u2014this is not the moment for such thoughts.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen to the voices of the mountains and rivers,\u201d the senior priest says. \u201cDo not try to see with your eyes. See with your ears. Only then can we truly begin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The roar of the stream suddenly swells, and a waterfall appears before us.<\/p>\n

After performing torifune<\/em>, a preparatory ritual before entering sacred water, we step beneath the falls for misogi<\/em>, the Shinto rite of purification. Even in midsummer, the water at this altitude\u2014over 1,000 meters above sea level\u2014is cold enough to make the body tremble. Yet gradually, a warmth begins to rise from within. Before long, cold and warmth intermingle, and the boundary between the water and myself slowly dissolves.<\/p>\n

This sensation reminds me of the first time I tasted the new rice harvested from a paddy we had cultivated ourselves. The moment I savored the cooked rice, everything contained within that single grain came rushing into me like a flickering reel of memories: the spring water flowing down from the back mountain, the many small creatures living in the soil, the long days of planting and harvesting with friends, the mole crickets we encountered while shaping the ridges of the fields, the pouring sunlight, the blessing of the rain.<\/p>\n

The life of the rice becomes my life. The paddy is me, and I am the paddy. Where does the paddy end, and where do I begin? The boundary between us, I realized, was far more ambiguous than I had ever imagined.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Yasuhiro Kobayashi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dissolving the Self: At a Turbulent Turning Point in Civilization<\/strong><\/p>\n

Originally, the Japanese language had no word equivalent to the modern concept of \u201cnature.\u201d When the Western idea of nature<\/em> was introduced in the nineteenth century, the term shizen<\/em> (\u81ea\u7136) was adopted as its translation. Before that, however, the same characters were read as jinen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jinen\u2014that which is so of itself.
\nRooted in Buddhist and Zen thought, the word refers to a state that spontaneously arises within relationships, simply as it is. It resonates with the concept of engi<\/em> (\u7e01\u8d77)\u2014the understanding that nothing exists independently but emerges dynamically and interdependently within a web of relations. For those who lived before us, the notion of \u201cnature\u201d as something externalized and separate from human life was perhaps never necessary.<\/p>\n

Yet, as we came to confine ourselves within the modern idea of the individual\u2014the \u201cself\u201d\u2014we also began to lose the ability to experience the body as a living medium that connects us with the myriad phenomena of the world. Instead, we came to regard it merely as a physical vessel. In the process, the natural world was increasingly seen as a resource to be dominated and extracted, and we built economic and social systems in which the more actively humans intervene, the more deeply the Earth\u2019s ecosystems are damaged.<\/p>\n

Human activity has now expanded to such an extent that it has given rise to what geologists call the Anthropocene. At the beginning of the twentieth century, anthropogenic mass accounted for only about three percent of the planet\u2019s total biomass. By 2020, however, the mass of human-made materials had surpassed the total mass of all living things on Earth. Alongside accelerating climate change and the accumulation of artificial materials across the planet, scientists warn that we may already have entered the sixth mass extinction in Earth\u2019s history\u2014the first driven by human activity.<\/p>\n

At this turning point in human civilization, what might we relearn from Japan\u2019s traditional ways of seeing the world\u2014perspectives grounded in deep interconnectedness with all existence? And how might such insights help us weave a new trajectory toward the future?<\/p>\n

Living on this volcanic archipelago, where four of the planet\u2019s major tectonic plates converge\u2014a geological condition of remarkable rarity\u2014and traveling through its landscapes, I gradually found myself drawn to these questions.<\/p>\n

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A waterfall in western Tokyo, where I practice misogi (waterfall purification) each summer and winter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ryuiki: What one of Japan\u2019s oldest sacred peaks taught me<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who are we, truly? And by what forces are we sustained?
\nFollowing that question, I eventually found myself drawn to a particular place.<\/p>\n

Mount Daisen in Tottori Prefecture\u2014one of Japan\u2019s oldest sacred peaks.<\/p>\n

Daisen rises along the San\u2019in coast on the Sea of Japan side of western Japan. It forms part of the landscape of the Izumo myths recorded in the Kojiki<\/em> (712) and appears in the Izumo Fudoki<\/em> (733) land-pulling myth as \u201cHinokami Peak of Hoki Province,\u201d making it one of the earliest recorded divine mountains in Japan.<\/p>\n

This solitary peak, rising to about 1,700 meters, is covered in expansive beech forests that support a distinctive ecology and hold abundant water. Rainfall and snowmelt slowly filter through deep layers of humus and complex underground aquifers, eventually emerging like a pump from the mountainsides and even from the seafloor as springs\u2014waters that continue to enhance the basic productivity of the coastal ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Together with the town of Kofu at the foot of the mountain, the Oku-Daisen Nature and Culture Council, and local business partners, I have been working on a project that explores the rich water circulation of Mount Daisen as a dynamic network of relationships between people and the natural environment. We describe this interconnected system\u2014from the deep mountains through satoyama landscapes, rivers, and finally to the sea\u2014as \u201cryuiki<\/em>\u201d (often translated as watershed), redefining it as a living continuum shaped by the interactions of all forms of life, including human activity.<\/p>\n

Through this work, we have created a visualization called the \u201cDaisen Ryuiki Dynamics Map\u201d, which illustrates these layered connections. Alongside it, we also offer experiential programs for individuals and organizational leaders, inviting them to physically and mentally experience this ryuiki as an integrated whole. By sensing these deep relationships directly, participants explore ways to redesign their social activities, businesses, and ways of living in alignment with the principles that sustain life in the natural world.<\/p>\n

\"Diagram
Daisen Ryuiki Dynamics Map by Ecological Memes and Okudaisen Natural & Cultural Council<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Map
Japan is a land shaped by watersheds. Situated on a geologically rare convergence of four major tectonic plates, the archipelago\u2019s rainy climate and steep terrain generate a vigorous flow of water. This environment has fostered a culture that perceives the world not as static, but as a dynamic flow of life\u2019s vitality\u2014the ceaseless activity of all living things.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ryuiki<\/em> does not refer simply to a watershed in the hydrological sense of a catchment or basin. Rather, it is a geographic, climatic, cultural, economic, and ecological concept\u2014a fundamental field in which human life is sustained through dynamic interaction with the natural environment and the continuous flow of water. It represents the smallest unit within which multiple layers of time and space accumulate: from the geological formation of landforms, to the myths, beliefs, and cultural practices rooted in a place, and onward to the present patterns of human life and economic activity. The embodied sensibility and perspective required to perceive these continuous dynamics is what we call \u201cRyuiki Awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryuiki Awareness is the capacity to sense this ever-changing, dynamic whole\u2014to recognize that we ourselves are part of the workings of all things, to become aware of the ryuiki flowing through our own lives, and to live from that awareness.<\/p>\n

In this series of essays, drawing on years of exploration through Ecological Memes\u2014including field research, learning programs, and exhibitions and symposia held both in Japan and abroad\u2014I hope to explore the wisdom embedded in ryuiki. Along the way, I will also introduce aspects of Japan\u2019s views on nature, as well as the cultural and spiritual traditions shaped by Shinto, Buddhism, and everyday ways of living. Through the landscape of the Daisen Ryuiki, I hope to reflect on why the perspectives of ryuiki may offer a crucial clue to the civilizational transition now unfolding across the world, as our relationship with water and life is increasingly called into question.<\/p>\n

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The author presented the concept of “Ryuiki” at the Ecological Memes exhibition and symposium<\/a>, which took place in London, Paris, and Berlin in October 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yaoyorozu no Kami (Multitudinous Gods)<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the first things that astonished me when I began visiting Mount Daisen was the sheer abundance of its spring water.<\/p>\n

Even along the road from Yonago Airport, the nearest airport, springs producing 20,000 to 30,000 tonnes of water a day appear here and there across the landscape\u2014some of them recognized as part of Japan\u2019s One Hundred Famous Waters<\/em>. Mountain spring water is largely unaffected by fluctuations in air temperature, and so it remains almost constant throughout the year. At the springs around Daisen, no matter the season, the water is usually around 12 to 14 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

I place my hands together and take a sip. Even in summer, the water is refreshingly cold. Water that has slowly filtered through the mountain over long years seeps gently into my heated body. It is the finest feeling imaginable.<\/p>\n

Mount Daisen is sometimes called the \u201cMount Fuji of Hoki Province\u201d, yet its beautiful form differs greatly from that of Mount Fuji\u2019s symmetrical stratovolcano. Daisen is a far more complex volcanic body, formed through multiple eruptions in which highly viscous magma created a series of lava domes. As a result, the mountain reveals entirely different faces depending on the direction from which it is viewed.<\/p>\n

This intricate volcanic geology\u2014and the distinctive vegetation that has grown from it\u2014forms the foundation of Daisen\u2019s remarkable water circulation system, making it one of the richest watersheds even within Japan, a country known for its abundance of watersheds.<\/p>\n

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Mount Daisen. Photo: Yasuhiro Kobayashi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Afterward, we climb higher into the mountains. At around 800 meters above sea level, we visit an ancient shrine to pay our respects to the deity of the mountain before entering the Kinoe River\u2014a mountain stream where ascetics of Mount Daisen are believed to have once trained. Here we practice sawanobori<\/em>, climbing upstream through the current as a ritual of embodying the mountain\u2019s waters.<\/p>\n

As we move deeper into the stream, the water becomes astonishingly clear. It is not only surface water flowing here. From the riverbed itself, subterranean water wells upward, pulsing from below.<\/p>\n

Rain and snow brought by winds from the Sea of Japan slowly seep into the thick humus of the beech forests, filtering through the mountain\u2019s intricate underground channels. Eventually, the water rises again\u2014like a pump\u2014from the mountainsides and the riverbed.<\/p>\n

Looking down, I see white sand glittering in the sunlight. The riverbed is filled with grains of feldspar and quartz\u2014weathered from andesite and dacite rich in silica\u2014forming a luminous landscape of silver beneath the flowing water.<\/p>\n

When I lift my gaze, I notice that the rock faces rising along the two banks tell very different geological stories. Mount Daisen is one of Japan\u2019s largest dacitic stratovolcanoes, formed through multiple eruptions between roughly one million and twenty thousand years ago. The layers created by these eruptions are stacked here in complex formations.<\/p>\n

On one bank, moss-covered masses of rough rock lie piled together\u2014remnants of what geologists call Old Daisen, the ancient volcanic body dating back roughly one million years, along with deposits left by subsequent large-scale debris avalanches, when the entire sections of the mountain collapsed. On the opposite bank rises a dramatic cliff of columnar jointing\u2014vertical fractures formed when lava cooled and solidified rapidly in a single event. The former belongs to what is known as \u201cOld Daisen\u201d. The latter is \u201cNew Daisen\u201d, a younger volcanic phase from around 20,000 years ago, when pyroclastic flows and lava filled the valleys carved by the older mountain.<\/p>\n

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Walking between a million-year-old volcano and the breath of a newer one, born tens of thousands of years ago, one is swept into a magnificent, planet-scale journey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As if responding to that story unfolding on a geological scale, the giant rocks here\u2014softly covered in moss\u2014are threaded through with tree roots and fungal mycelium that penetrate deep into the stone itself. From within them, spring water seeps slowly and continuously to the surface. The sensation returns of what I had felt earlier along the shrine approach: the texture of ancient trees embracing great boulders, the quiet dripping of iwakura<\/em>\u2014sacred rocks. Their subtle resonance seems to sound again.<\/p>\n

That resonance seeps into my body together with the pressure of the springs, flowing onward\u2014eventually making its way to the sea.<\/p>\n

Rock, microbes, rain, trees, moss, fungi, wind, tides, sunlight\u2026
\nAll these beings, over vast stretches of time, influence one another and together nurture the cycles of life.<\/p>\n

What if it were this entire living totality to which our ancestors bowed, placing their hands together before a shrine?
\nWhat if they called the workings of all things kami<\/em>?<\/p>\n

The poet Sansei Yamao (1938\u20132001), who lived on Yakushima Island, described the essence of Japanese animism as a subtle shift in perspective: not that kami<\/em> dwell within all things, but that all things themselves are expressions of kami<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnimism is the intuition\u2014and the conviction\u2014that every phenomenon and every being in the universe is an expression of a single life. That one life is what we have long called kami<\/em>.\u201d
\n\u2014Sansei Yamao, Animism as Hope<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this sense, yaoyorozu no kami<\/em>\u2014the \u201cmultitudinous gods\u201d that symbolize Japan\u2019s view of nature\u2014are neither GOD nor god in the Western sense. They are the living manifestation of the vast, generative activity of all things in existence.<\/p>\n

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Photographed by the author on Yakushima Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Connection Between Forest and Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leaving the mountain behind, I make my way toward the sea.<\/p>\n

The place called Yodoe, overlooking the Sea of Japan and the Shimane Peninsula, takes its name from an old expression meaning \u201ca quiet inlet.\u201d Since ancient times, it has been known as a naturally sheltered harbor.<\/p>\n

Walking along the shoreline, I suddenly notice a faint sensation beneath my feet\u2014a coolness distinct from the surrounding seawater. It is submarine spring water, welling up from beneath the seafloor.<\/p>\n

At Mount Daisen, the vast amounts of rain and snow brought from the Sea of Japan slowly seep into the earth. Passing through intricate underground channels formed by layers of volcanic strata deposited during eruptions between roughly 1 million and 20,000 years ago, the water travels underground for 20 to 30 years in this area before finally emerging from the seabed like a natural pump.<\/p>\n

Carried within this groundwater are nutrients produced by the forest\u2014dissolved oxygen, mineral elements, and fulvic acid iron\u2014substances that form the foundation of coastal ecosystems. Fulvic acid iron is a chelated compound created when fulvic acid\u2014produced as fallen leaves and organic matter decompose through microbial activity in forest soils\u2014binds with iron ions in the ground. Iron is an essential trace element for life, yet it is poorly soluble and difficult for organisms to absorb. By binding with fulvic acid, it becomes available in a form that phytoplankton, seaweeds, and plants can readily take up.<\/p>\n

Through this invisible circulation of materials, the forest nourishes the sea. This is one of the quiet but vital cycles through which a rich forest gives rise to a rich ocean, as noted by the late Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, the founder of “The Forest is Longing for the Sea\u201d, and Dr. Shogo Arai, a researcher of submarine spring water.<\/p>\n

\"Diagram
From Daisen Ryuiki Dynamics Cards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These connections between forest and sea nurture abundant marine life\u2014life that eventually flows onto our tables.<\/p>\n

In this region, the arrival of spring is announced by the first tender shoots of wakame<\/em> seaweed, which appear between February and March after the beginning of the lunar spring. When I place locally prepared ita-wakame<\/em>\u2014wakame carefully harvested and pressed into thin sheets by local fishermen\u2014on my tongue, it feels as if the Sea of Japan itself is flowing into my body. There are also delicacies found only here, such as mosa-ebi<\/em>, a shrimp native to the Sea of Japan whose delicate freshness rarely allows it to reach distant markets. And then there is wild rock mozuku<\/em> (kuromo<\/em>), a seaweed that settles and germinates on the seabed after winter storms churn the coastal waters, nourished by snowmelt rich in nutrients flowing down from the mountains. Locals sometimes call it \u201cbozu-goroshi<\/em> (monk-killer)\u201d because eating it is said to make people so healthy that Buddhist priests would have no funerals left to perform.<\/p>\n

Floating gently in the sea like a drifting jellyfish, I turn and look up. There stands Mount Daisen\u2014the mountain I had been climbing only moments before\u2014quietly watching over me.<\/p>\n

So, this is it, I think. We have always been sustained within this web of connections.<\/p>\n

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The exquisite Mosa-ebi shrimp. Its delicate freshness means it rarely appears on the market, making it a blessing from the Sea of Japan that can only be tasted in the area around.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yodoe developed as a hub of exchange with the Asian continent and the Korean Peninsula during the Yayoi and Kofun periods (roughly 300 BCE\u2013600 CE), when permanent settlements began to form here. Archaeological evidence even suggests that the basic layout of the present village may have remained largely unchanged for nearly six thousand years. The surrounding region\u2014including the Mukoyama Kofun cluster in nearby Yonago\u2014contains an extraordinary concentration of ancient burial mounds, rivaling those found around Nara. Particularly notable are the yosumi-tossutsu-gata funkyubo<\/em>, burial mounds with projecting corners at the four sides, a distinctive funerary form unique to the San\u2019in region. Their presence suggests that this area once belonged to a unique cultural sphere centered on the Sea of Japan, shaped through long-standing exchanges with the continent.<\/p>\n

Mount Daisen first came into being through volcanic eruptions roughly one million years ago. How might this mountain have watched as the tiny and fleeting beings called humans appeared only tens of thousands of years ago\u2014building civilizations here while gradually forgetting their connection to the living world?<\/p>\n

And yet, perhaps that is not the whole story.<\/p>\n

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Floating gently in the sea helps the participants integrate what they experience and feel during the immersion program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each time I visit Daisen, what I feel most strongly are the warm traces of people who have lived in deep relationship with this mountain: small roadside shrines quietly standing in the forest, the remains of charcoal kilns hidden among the trees, the vast beech forests and abundant springs that still endure, and the local grandmothers who speak with intimate knowledge of the mountain\u2019s gifts and the lives they sustain. Even today, people in this region still press their hands together and say that the success of their rice fields and vegetable gardens comes \u201cthanks to Daisen-san\u201d.<\/p>\n

Certainly, much has been lost through modernization. Yet the memory carried by earlier generations still seems to breathe quietly in this land.<\/p>\n

It is not a call to retreat into a romanticized past or a purely naturalistic way of life. Rather, it points toward something else: a clue to a symbiotic civilization\u2014one that receives the gifts of nature with humility and reverence, participates in the great cycles of life as part of them, and cultivates enduring relationships with the living world.<\/p>\n

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A scene from the corporate training program in the Daisen Ryuiki.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To see kami in the workings of all things, to bow in gratitude, and to recognize ourselves as participants within that same living activity\u2014it feels to me as if the very origin of Ryuiki Awareness resides here.<\/p>\n

Read Part 2<\/a><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n

But how, exactly, did this perspective of deep interconnectedness take root and sustain itself within the cultural and historical fabric of the Japanese archipelago? In Part 2, we explore this by tracing the threads of Japanese myth and history.<\/p>\n

Yasuhiro Kobayashi<\/strong>
\nTokyo<\/p>\n

On The Nature of Cities<\/a><\/p>\n

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Upcoming Event Information: Ryuiki Gatherings\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
A new online talk series on ‘Ryuiki’ is starting on April 22nd. I warmly invite those who feel called to join us in this shared journey of exploration.<\/div>\n
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\u30fcApril 22nd (Wed) 12:00 \u2013 14:00 (BST) \/ 13:00 \u2013 15:00 (CEST) \/ 20:00 \u2013 22:00 (JST)<\/div>\n
Why Water Matters: Re-imagining Human-Nature Reciprocity in the Era of Poly-crisis<\/div>\n
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Guest: Janice Li \/ Curator (London)<\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/why-water-matters-re-imagining-human-nature-reciprocity-tickets-1986535132056<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u30fcMay 22nd (Fri) 13:00 \u2013 15:00 (CEST) \/ 20:00 \u2013 22:00 (JST)<\/div>\n
Caring for Watershed Ecologies: Learning from Place-based Mythologies and Landscape Regeneration Practices through Contemporary Arts<\/div>\n
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Guest: Carmen Bouyer \/ Environmental Artist (Paris)<\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/caring-for-watershed-ecologies-place-based-mythologies-and-regeneration-tickets-1986702444492<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u30fcJune 16th (Tue) 12:00 \u2013 14:00 (CEST) \/ 19:00 \u2013 21:00 (JST)<\/div>\n
Ancestral Flows in Japan: Re-activating Animistic Landscape and Awareness in the Layered Archipelago<\/div>\n
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Guest: Everett Kennedy Brown \/ Artist, Writer (Japan\/US)<\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/ancestral-flows-in-japan-re-activating-animistic-landscape-awareness-tickets-1986909595085<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u30fcJuly 9th (Thu) 11:00 \u2013 13:00 (BST) \/ 19:00 \u2013 21:00 (JST)<\/div>\n
Decolonizing Leadership: Indigenous Wisdom and Regenerative Business as a Songline of Land and Water<\/div>\n
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Guest: Jannine Barron \/ Regenerative Business Mentor (UK\/Australia)<\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/decolonizing-leadership-indigenous-wisdom-and-regenerative-business-tickets-1987413409006<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u30fcAugust 4th (Tue) 12:00 \u2013 14:00 (CEST) \/ 18:00 \u2013 20:00 (Bali) \/ 19:00 \u2013 21:00 (JST)<\/div>\n
Regenerating Tourism as a Ryuiki Journey: Ancient Wisdom and More-than-Human Connectivity in Bali<\/div>\n
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