More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

This is the manhole cover for Koryo Town in Izumo. It is actually a new administrative town,.. really it's just a collection of villages...

Gods' Music - The Japanese Folk Theatre of Iwami Kagura Terence Lancashire Florian Noetzel 351 pp. ISBN 3-7959-0890-6 As is obvious by r...

Tucked away against the hill is the Suga Shrine in the little fishing village of Matsubara. The shrine grounds were being used as a car park...

In this final video from the recent annual matsuri in my village. In this ending sequence to the dance, the hero, Yorimasa, and his sidekick...

Continuing with videos from the annual matsuri in my village last week. A couple of weeks ago I saw 2 kagura groups use the Kakko dance to i...

Continuing with some videos of kagura performed by my neighbors at the village's annual matsuri. It's usually dramatic when an O...

Last weekend was the annual matsuri in my village, Tanijyugo, so I'm going to post several videos of the all-night kagura performed...

The Aeroplaza is a hotel/shopping complex attached to Kansai Airport's terminal building Connected to the terminal by a covered walkway....

Matsubara is a fishing village that is now part of Hamada City. Ishigami Shrine is just inside the village a stone's throw from Hamada C...

The earliest form of Tengu in Japan was a half-bird half-man creature, the Karasu (crow) Tengu, but the commonest form is the red faced, lon...