More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Just shipped off a couple of new masks today. This is the fourth Blue Hanya I've sold and am quite pleased as it is an original de...

Continuing with my cataloging of the Nio found in the Kunisaki Peninsular of northern Kyushu. Nio, temple guardians, ar nowadays found...

After crossing the Tatara Bridge the Shimanami kaido runs down the SE edge of Omishima. Omishima is the biggest of the islands on the ...

The main reason to visit Kannon-in, a Tendai Temple in Tottori City, is for the garden. The garden took ten years to build, begi...

Ichibacho, which means "market town", is located on the north of the Yoshino River in Tokushima. The village around the shri...

I've been wandering the back country up in Izumo the last few weekends. A little later than usual but the paddies are flooded ...

Looking, in some ways, like a viking ship, the draincover for Imabari on the northern tip of Ehime in Shikoku depicts some ships belon...

The futuristic-looking Kobe Fashion Plaza is located on Rokko Island, a man-made island connected to Kobe in Hyogo The complex...

Approaching Kirihata-ji, temple number 10 on the Shikoku Pilgrimage, the pagoda can be seen protruding from the forest on the hillside...

Torii, the entrance gates most commonly found at Shinto shrines, are usually made of stone or wood though concrete and steel have been...