More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Hachimanyama Kosenji Temple is at the eastern end of the Ebino Valley in the higjlands around the Kirishima Montains in Miyazaki. It is ...

Kirishima Mask Museum The mask museum in Kirishima was called "Tengu-kan", and obviously there were a lot of masks of tengu o...

Being a mask maker myself, I have a great interest in masks and am always on the lookout for them on my walks. Ive visited a few small m...

Uzume Mask It has been a very long time since I finished any masks , but the last few weeks I have been hard at it. Most of my older blo...

The Masks at Nobusatohachimangu Shrine Towards the end of my second day walking the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage I was coming into the outski...

Continuing with some photos of masks I found in shrines while walking along the Iwami coast this past spring. In a small shrine in a r...

While walking along the Shimane coast in the spring I stopped in at as many shrines as I could. One of the things I seek out at shrine...

Mitarai, a small port on Osaki Shimozima Island in the Inland Sea is a truly delightful step back in time. Much of the small town is a...

Being a mask maker myself, one of the things I am always hoping to find in my explorations of shrines are masks, so I was absolutely d...

Just finished another couple of masks, and rather being something new they are copies of earlier ones that had been ordered. Whereas m...

The Kibune shrine in Bungokawachi on the western side of the Kunisaki Peninsula is one of about 500 branch shrines of the Kifune Shrin...

Winter is the time I finally get to finish some of the masks I have been working on. This one is Sarutahiko. According to the Nation...