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Buddhist temples in Japan, like temples, shrines, and churches all over the world, are often repositories of a lot of art. Some temples ha... -
This is one of the more than 1000 Hina dolls on display at the Nagashibina Doll Museum in Mochigase Town, Tottori Nagashibina refers ... -
Mukade Caught this little bugger yesterday crawling across my floor. In japanese it is called Mukade, which means "100 legs"... -
While in Miyakonojo I stopped by a strange piece of architecture, the Miyakonojo Civic Center. It was built in 1966 and was designed b... -
The next big temple after Daionji along Teramachi in Nagasaki is Kotaiji, and there was a little bit more to see here. The first building ... -
A Buke Yashiki is best translated as samurai residence, and this one in the castle town of Matsue belonged to middle -ranked samurai. It i... -
Regular readers will easily recognize this as a statue of Fudo Myo, far and away the most numerous deity statue featured in my blog. All t... -
Kaiun Fudo Myo & Shunkoji Temple Fudo Myo Heading down the valley after visiting Mudo-ji Temple in the Kunisaki area of Oita, Kyushu, I ... -
The Izumo Mansion was formerly the residence of the Ezumi family, a wealthy farming family of the Izumo region. Their main house was disma... -
The Nabeshima mansion was a high-ranking samurais residence and administrative outpost of the Nabeshima Clan who ruled what is now Saga d...