More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Tozan is the popular reading of the kanji for Sueyama, the official name of this shrine in the old town of Arita in Saga. While most torii...

  Kishu Toshogu is a very colorful shrine in Wakayama City. Kishu was the feudal domain of the Edo Period that was roughly what is now north...

Rikitake Kamado Shrine After visiting Nyoirinji Temple, the "Frig Temple" that was number three on the Kyushu pilgrimage I am walk...

  On the north bank of the Chikugo River in Fukuoka, and now a part of Kurume City, is a large Tenmangu Shrine established in the 11th Centu...

Statues along the Hita Kaido One of the subjects I focus on finding as I walk the roads and lanes of Japan is sculptures. On my walk along t...

  Miyama is a small rural settlement in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture that used to be called Chikugo. I passed through while walki...