More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  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...

 This small shrine goes overboard with marine-safety gods, has the most strangely looking Fudo Myoo, and proves that angry ghosts can be hor...

  The Itsukushima Shrine in Koshigahama near Hagi is situated on the banks of Myojin Pond. The pond is tidal but also contains freshwater, s...

  Hashikuraji is a mountain temple in the mountains that border Tokushima and Kagawa on Shikoku. It was the "inner temple" of Konp...