More Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

  The first part of day 44 of my walk along the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage was in Higashi Izumo, and I walked across the Ou Plain, once home ...

Japan Mountain Bounty Day 9 of my walk along the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage, and I am walking through some remote mountain country I had no bee...

  This is the 4th and final post on Myo-on-ji temple. It is not a famous temple, nor particularly ancient or large. However, it does have a ...

Kanaya Tenmangu shrine is located just outside what used to be the gate into Hagi castle and was where the the Daimyo and official trave...

White snakes are considered sacred in Japan, and are mostly associated with Benzaiten. I posted before on some white snakes found at Iw...

The most poisonous snake in Japan is the Mamushi, also the most common. Gloydius Bomhoffii is a pit-viper and is found all over. ...

2013 is the Year of the Snake so I thought I would post some pics of that most lucky of all snakes, the White Snake. Long associated w...

This is the third and final part of a walk I took last May up in Izumo. The previous 2 posts can be found in the links below this post. Walk...