After visiting Kanyoji and its wonderful gardens, there were still a couple of hours of daylight left in the day.
The next temple on the pilgrimage was in Yamaguchi City, about 40k almost directly west.
The route was across a very remote section of mountains, although the Chugoku Expressway roughly went the same way.
It was not an area I had ever been to before, and there seemed to be no notable sights or settlements along the way....
I stopped in at any local shrines I passed....
In Suyama, a Kumano Shrine with two pairs of Ebisu and Daikoku masks...
As the sun gets lower I keep my eyes peeled for a place to sleep for the night.... something I habitually do even if I am in a car or on a train....50 years of sometimes having to sleep out means I know what to look for ...... I believe the contemporary term is stealth camping...
And then over a small pass from the Seiryoji River valley to drop into the Kushi River valley....
In Kushi, a small park....
And next to it on the hillside a small Hakusan Shrine....
Rusting metal covering thatched roofs are very common around here...
Kushi Hachimangu is quite rare, a shrine with a thatched roof...
It claims to have been founded in the early 8th century
An unusual pairing of masks... a Karasu Tengu with a Daikoku...
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