More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Saotome, rice-planting maidens from last weekends Tauebayashi Matsuri up in Atoichi. Saotome appear in all kinds of rice planting ceremonies...

I had a thoroughly enjoyable time at the Atoichi Children's Tauebayashi Matsuri. Following a small ceremony in front of the school, the ...

On Sunday we drove up into the mountains to the village of Atoichi where we found a wonderful example of an old, wooden school building. It ...