More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

In the north of Nogata in the village called Ueki, I came across this small Hiyoshi Shrine, one of about 4,000 branch shrines of Hiyoshi Ta...

Located next to the Makino Botanical Gardens in the south of Kochi City, the 5 storey pagoda of Chikurinji was built in 1980 to replace ...

On the other side of the railway tracks to Taga Shrine in Nogata, Fukuoka,  is a small museum on the local coal industry called the Noga...

Taga Shrine in Nogata is the main shrine of the area and when I visited just before the new year they were getting ready for the influx o...

Enseiji Temple, located down a small side street in Hagi is an example of something that was once the norm but is now unusual, it is b...

I am intrigued by the eclectic collections of figures left at various kinds of "folk" altars around Japan. So here ar...

I started my walk along the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage in Nachi on the south coast of Wakayama. The first temple is Seigantoji at the f...

The popular form of Koshin worship is now associated with the famous three monkeys and also with Sarutahiko. Statues of monkeys are th...