More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  At Koizu fishing port I headed over to see what seafood was being dried in the baskets, only to discover it was nets. Koizu is, I think, t...

  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...

Hachimanyama Kosenji Temple is at the eastern end of the Ebino Valley in the higjlands around the Kirishima Montains in Miyazaki. It is ...

Kirishima Mask Museum The mask museum in Kirishima was called "Tengu-kan", and obviously there were a lot of masks of tengu o...

Being a mask maker myself, I have a great interest in masks and am always on the lookout for them on my walks. Ive visited a few small m...

Uzume Mask It has been a very long time since I finished any masks , but the last few weeks I have been hard at it. Most of my older blo...

The Masks at Nobusatohachimangu Shrine Towards the end of my second day walking the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage I was coming into the outski...

Continuing with some photos of masks I found in shrines while walking along the Iwami coast this past spring. In a small shrine in a r...