More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Fuse is a small fishing village on the East coast of Dogo, the largest of the Oki Islands in the Japan Sea off the coast of Shimane. I rea...

  Down below the Otoshi Shrine near Hamada Port is a small Benten-Sha and a memorial to sailors and fishermen lots at sea... The Otoshi shri...

  Just inland from the beach, and not far from the port in Hagi, is a small Sumiyoshi Shrine. It was established in 1655, though for three y...

  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...