More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  By mid-afternoon, after leaving Omori, I stopped in briefly at Mononobe Shrine, the ichinomiya of Iwami. The primary kami is Umashimaji, s...

  Ninomiya Shrine is a small shrine in the heart of Kobe, not too far from Sannomiya Station. Ninomiya and Sannomiya means "Second Shri...

Chirikuhachimangu Just a cou ple of hundred metres from a Hachiman Shrine adjacent to the Nanagi Fudoson Tem ple was the entrance to a much...

By mid afternoon on the second day of my walk along the Iwami Mandala Kannon Pilgrimage, I came to Mononobe Shrine, the Ichinomiya (hi...

I used to do a lot of painting before I got into making masks, so I thought I'd post a couple. This first one is titled Tanijyugo Annive...