More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Japan Guide When I reached Tanushimaru along the Hita Kaido, another kind of statue, other than Ebisu,  started to appear, namely Kappa........

I won't be posting for a week or so as I am off on the pilgrim trail, and as we are approaching Halloween I thought these would be a...

I really enjoyed our afternoon in Sakaiminato, and as well as the collection of bronze yokai sculptures (a small selection of which you can ...

This is the third post on the yokai sculptures on the Mizuki Shigeru Road. Details in Yokai Gallery 1 Salaryman Yamada is not, as f...

Yokai This is a follow on post from Yokai Gallery 1 This is a Sazaeoni. A sazae is a shellfish known as Turban Snail in English. Whe...

Yokai Yokai is a very broad category of creature that includes monsters, goblins, demons, in fact all and every kind of supernatural being ...