More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Kakaji is a town on the north side of the Kunisaki peninsula, and the Hachiman Shrine is te main shrine of the town. The approach to the s...

  Yakumo Honjin is a large, Edo-period residence formerly owned by the Kowata Family that also functioned as a honjin, a guesthouse for the ...

Taketomi Taketomi Island is a small island just off Ishigaki Island in the chain of islands now called Okinawa. It is most well known for t...

  The Kunisaki Peninsula is one of my most favorite places, one reason being that some of the cultural revolution that took place at the end...

One of the things I am always on the lookout for in my wanderings in the back country of Japan, are masks. Being a mask-maker myself, th...

Masks of Ishigaki Ishigaki is a small island that is part of what is now Okinawa, though it is much closer to Taiwan than to the main is...

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