More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  3rd of May, 2014, and my final stop of day 9 of my walk along the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage was a fairly standard village shrine in Mito Ons...

  Kannonji is located in Gotsu Honmachi, the old, original town, slightly upstream from the mouth of the Gonokawa River. Overlooking the old...

  After the temple and shrines in Tsunozu, the next stop is a temple in Gotsu Honmachi and so head off down the small coast road rather than...

  Kakinomoto Hitomaro is the greatest of the ancient poets and is worshipped as the kami of poetry. He was a low-ranked bureaucrat from Yama...

  Tucked away in the outskirts of Ninomiya, Taiheiji is a surprisingly substantial temple. It is a Soto Zen temple, but I could find no othe...