More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

This is the second post on the shisa of Okinawa. All of these photos wre taken at Okinawa World, a "theme park" in the ...

Arashima Hachimangu is located right on Route 9. Hachiman is usually a trio of kami, Homuda Wake, the name of Emperor Ojin, is usually t...

Whereas hemp had and has many uses in ritual and ceremony as well as medicine in traditional Japan, its main use was as fibre, and tha...

Last weekend went to the second Annual Hemp Festival up in the mountains near Chizu, Tottori. The festival was organized by a small, l...

Hashima ( or Hajima) Shrine is located on a small rounded hill among the rice paddies just outside Yasugi town center, just off Route 9....

By lunchtime of my first day walking across the Kunisaki Peninsula I was approaching the foothills and the valley I was going to follo...

For the ninth day of the Izumo Kannon Pilgrimage I started out in Yasugi. Now I head back West. Today I will not get to a visit any of t...

On my second day of walking along the Akinada Islands I was on the southern coast of Osaki Shimojima heading towards Mitarai. The...

Unjuji After leaving Kiyomizudera I headed for Unjuji, what I believed to be the next temple on the Izumo Kannon Pilgrimage. When I studie...

The Museum of Art in Onomichi, Hiroshima, is located on top of the mountain overlooking the town and the nearby islands. It was...