More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Hashikuraji is a mountain temple in the mountains that border Tokushima and Kagawa on Shikoku. It was the "inner temple" of Konp...

  Kakurinji is located on a low hilltop on the bank of the Matsuura River not far from its mouth where it enters the sea. I approached it fr...

  A statue of Kobo Daishi, the focus of the Kyushu 108 sacred sites pilgrimage, stands outside temple 70, Hoko-in near Arita in Saga. I reac...