Iwami Kannon
Sunday 16th December 2012, and I begin my third day walking the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage with Mount Sanbe silhouetted inland. Today I will walk from Shizuma down the coast and end at Nima.
There was one of the pilgrimage temples and lots of shrines. A few mountain roads and a few villages and a nice stretch of beach to walk.
A great day for surfing, I guess,.... we get good surf mostly in the winter it seems.
A couple of the shrines are very intriguing and tell the story of the arrival of Susano from the Korean peninsula. Almost completely ignored in most renditions of the myths and early history of Japan, the two shrines were instrumental in sending me on the search for Susano stories...
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