More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Saturday, March 26th, 2016, and I continue north on day 7 of my walk along the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage which at this point still follows t...

Mudo-in, tem p le number 68 on the Kyushu 108 pilgrimage is a small rural tem p le to the southeast of Mount Kurokami near Takeo in Saga. It...

Fukura is a district of Usuki, and as I walked into town I stopped in at Fukura Tenmangu. Like quite a few shrines it was actually a tem...

Woke up to a few centimeters of of snow this morning so took the opportunity to go for a short one hour walk...... Tomorrow I will post more...

Umeboshi, pickled plums, can most often be found in bentos, where a single plum is placed in the center of the rice to look like the Japanes...

Though the official start of spring, Setsubun, was a few weeks ago, for me the sign that spring is here is the arrival of the plum blossoms....