More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Another series of photos from the rice-planting matsuri we went to yesterday, the Tauebayashi, in Kawahira. I don't feel very comfortabl...

Spent a great morning today downriver in the village of Kawahira for the Tauebayashi matsuri. Tauebayashi is a rice-planting worksong from t...

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 ...

Izanagi Shrine is located just across from the Sujin Kofun on Route 169 in Tenri, just a little off of the Yamanobenomichi. The shrine is me...