More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Popular shrines will often have large numbers of objects left or donated by worshippers who either are praying for something, or giving th...

  Taisanji, temple 56 on the Shikoku Ohenro pilgrimage, is located in the rural outskirts of Imabari in Ehime. I  visited at the end of my 3...

  Late November, and on day 17 of my walk around Shikoku on the Ohenro pilgrimage I have left the Wakamiya Hachimangu shrine connected to th...

  Nankobo is located in downtown Imabari, and the first noticeable thing is that instead of Nio guardians, the main gate houses the 4 Shiten...

  The southern approach to Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine in Nagahama, Kochi is through a long narrow ark, Chinjunomri. Some way along the path ...