More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Shizuma Shrine is on a small road close to the coast in Shizuma near Oda in Shimane. In earlier times it was located inside a nearby sea c...

  Saifukuji Temple, number 76 on the Kyushu  P ilgrimage, is located on a mountainside overlooking the Sasa River north of Sasebo, Nagasaki....

  Located at the base of a towering cliff in the lower Kankakei Gorge on Shodoshima Island, Hotogekataki is temple number 20 on the Shodoshi...

  Iwayaji, temple 44 on the Ohenro pilgrimage in Shikoku, is located among towering cliffs and spires of rock high in the mountains of Kumak...

Kiyotakisan Magnificent Cave Temple Above the main gate into Kiyotakisan Temple on Shodoshima is this unusual carving of a cat. I have been ...