Early May, 2013, and I start day 6 of my walk along the Kannon pilgrimage in the former province of Iwami, the Iwami Mandala Kannon. The last temple I visited was Senganji upriver in Kawamoto and the next two temples lie between it and my home so I decided to start out from my house and walk this section in reverse as it were.
The azaleas were starting to bloom and a few houses had koinobori car
p streamers flying.
The colourful bridge that crosses the river between Tanijyugo, my village, and Kawado on the opposite bank, had recently had a new coat of paint.
Just upstream from the Kawado Bridge, two lines of koinobori are stretched across the river.
On the far bank is where the local suijin festival will take
place on May 5th. A large Onusa, a purification wand, hangs over the river at this point to pacify the turbulent water deity.
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