More Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Demon Mummy of Daijoin A small sign pointed up a narrow path between bamboo to a temple, the kind of invitation I find heard to resist. A gr...

Bukkokusan Temple Bukkokusan, temple number 41 on the Shodoshima Pilgrimage, is actually the okunoin of temple 40, Hoanji, and if you are ...

The two latest masks I completed. Every winter I have a rather optimistic plan to finish lots of new masks. Summers are too humid to m...

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...

While walking along the Shimane coast in the spring I stopped in at as many shrines as I could. One of the things I seek out at shrine...

These two demon masks were located behind the main building of the Hachiman Shrine in Yuki, a fishing village on the south coast of To...

Okazaki Shrine in the fishing village of Yuki on the Tokushima coast is a small local shrine, now made of concrete. There was no infor...