More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Adorning the roof of Haguro Shrine in Tamashima, Okayamama, is a ceramic Karasu Tengu, and it has become the symbol of the shrine and also...

  Heading southeast out of old Kurashiki I follow the Kurashiki River towards the next pilgrimage temple on my walk. In Aruki I stop in at t...

  Achi Shrine is located on a hilltop overlooking the Bikan Historic District in Kurashiki, and is now the pre-eminent shrine of the area. T...

  Shizuma Shrine is on a small road close to the coast in Shizuma near Oda in Shimane. In earlier times it was located inside a nearby sea c...