More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Walking up the right bank of the Gonokawa, Kawahira is the first main inlet coming into the river. From Kawahira the road heads into the m...

Tauebayashi It was great weather last weekend so I took advantage and went and visited the local Tauebayashi, rice planting festival. It...

Around 2:30am the kagura group took a break, something I have never seen before. I suspect that as the village has shrunk, so has the ...

Sunday night was matsuri downriver in Kawahira, a village I always enjoy visiting because of the friendliness and genrosity of the vil...

Here are some more photos of the Tauebayashi festival down in Kawahira last weekend. Someone asked if in the olden days the saotome, plantin...

Its that time of the year again. In my neighborhood the month of May is spent planting rice. My neighbors dont go on vacation for Golden Wee...

On Sunday I went down to Gotsu for the annual Kagura Festival, but after a few hours indoors I couldnt stand it any longer... outside was an...

After my brief exploration of the abandoned school I carried on into Kawahira. There is not much to Kawahira,... a couple of temples, a shri...