More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Kuromatsu The fishing harbor of Kuromatsu is just outside the main village in a small, adjacent cove. It is not very large but fairly typica...

In  the wake of the typhoon that had passed by a few days ago the sea was still far more active than normal and as I approached Kuromatsu it...

This is a continuation of an earlier post . The flotilla of boats carrying the mikoshi headed out to the island to pick up the goddess........

A couple of weekends ago was one of my favorite matsuris at Kuromatsu, a fishing village on the coast not far from here. I usually experie...

As I've mentioned before, where we live is in a narrow valley, so we rarely get to see sunsets, so when we get the chance to see one it&...

Yesterday I posted about the civic matsuri's that are going on right now throughout Japan. The other type of matsuri going on now are t...