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...

  Yuga Shrine is unique in having a ceramic torii entrance gate made of local Bizen-ware. It is not the only ceramic torii in Japan. Down in...

  My first stop after coming down the mountain and reachting the wide open  plain around Itoshima was the village shrine in Takae. Located a...

  Karatsu Shrine is the main shrine of the castle town of Karatsu on the coast of Saga in northern Kyushu. It was moved to its current site ...