More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Shukkeien is the daimyo garden connected to Hiroshima Castle. Not so long ago I posted a sequence of photos taken in the autumn , and so t...

  When I got off the ferry on the mainland, the rain had stopped, though it looked like drizzle back on Miyajima. A dull and overcast day an...

  Day 17 of my walk along the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage promised to be a wet one. It had rained most of the night, and the rain still contin...

  From Daisho-in Temple the views down onto Itsukushima Shrine and its iconic torii are quite impressive. Daisho-in administered  Itsukushim...