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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Kitsuki Samurai House Exteriors

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  In the small castle town of Kitsuki in Oita there is a well preserved former samurai district with some of the Edo Period samurai residenc...
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Monday, March 8, 2021

Shiranuhi Culture Plaza

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  Shiranuhi is a small town in rural Kumamoto. Shiranuhi Culture Plaza is a modrn building housing the library and a small museum. It is one...
Saturday, March 6, 2021

Matsubase Shrine

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  Matsubase is a small town in Kumamoto that I reached in the afternoon of my 45th day walking around Kyushu. Matsubase Shrine is the main s...
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Thursday, March 4, 2021

A Couple of Mysteries Solved

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Mysteries Heading north through the paddies north of Yatsushiro I was surprised to see tractors planting in flooded paddies. I had read that...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Curious Komainu

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Komainu While heading north across the coastal plain north of Yatsushiro I stopped in at about a dozen small shrines. They were mostly very...
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Sunday, February 28, 2021

Yatsushiro Monument Kilali

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Yatsushiro Monument Kilali Day 45 of my first walk around Kyushu and it's time to head north out of Yatsushiro towards Kumamoto City. ...
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Friday, February 26, 2021

Historic Streetscape of Takehara

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  Takehara is a small town on the coast of Hiroshima, east of Hiroshima City. It flourished as a port in Medieval japan when the Inland Sea ...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Hateiji Temple 5 on the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage

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  Hateiji Temple was rather curious. On the one hand it appeared deserted and unused, but on the other there was a recently maintained gate ...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

Historic streets of Kiragawa

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  Kiragawa is a small port on the west side of the Muroto Peninsula in Kochi on Shikoku. If you are following the Shikoku pilgrimage in the ...
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Saturday, February 20, 2021

Yama Shrine

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  After leaving Fuki-ji temple, the oldest wooden building in Kyushu and a fairly major tourists site, I carried on up the narrow, mountain...
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