More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

I was in Hiroshima's Shukkeien gardens last spring and a couple were having their wedding photos taken there. I'm not usually very c...

Millet hung up to dry. Been very busy this past month. I don't grow any rice, so I haven't needed to harvest that like everyone else...

"Then we advance, picking our way very, very carefully between the stone-towers, toward the mouth of the inner grotto, and reach the st...

"From the caves of the Kami we retrace our course for about a quarter of a mile; then make directly for an immense perpendicular wrinkl...

We had a rehearsed spontaneous visit from a BSS TV crew last Friday. When we first moved here we were on TV 3 or 4 times, but not for a few ...

Mitaki Dera Tsukubai, literally "stooping basin" are small stone basins associated often with Tea Ceremony. They differ from th...

"We cross the broad opening of the bay, journey along another half-mile of ghastly sea-precipice, and finally make for a lofty promonto...

It took me a long time to find out about this statue as I can find nothing similar anywhere else. It is located in Mitaki Dera, my favorite ...

Kuri, Japanese Chestnuts, are starting to fall from the trees now. It's an indigenous tree of the Japanese islands, and the nuts have be...

I found this eclectic tableau at the entrance to Suisei-en on the yamanobenomichi. The figure on the far left is Hotei, one of Japan's 7...