More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

The first temple on the Izumo 33 Kannon Pilgrimage is Chokoku-ji, located not far from the beach in Taisha Town. Ive posted on this temp...

Last week I posted photos of the ceramic votive phalli at Mara Kannon Shrine in Yamaguchi. Here are some of the other more individuala...

On the long climb up to Shosanji, temple 12, on the Shikoku pilgrimage there are three sites associated with Kukai, the second being R...

Taineiji is an old Zen temple in the mountains a little south of Nagato on the north Yamaguchi coast. We drove past the temple but sto...

Known as the Land of Myth, Izumo has many myths recorded in the earliest chronicles, and probably the most well known is the story of ...

We left Marrakesh in the early afternoon and headed 200k almost directly west until we hit the Atlantic and Essouira. It was my first ...

The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art sits on the waterfront in Kobe and was constructed in 2002 as part of the cities post-earthquake r...

Temple 13 has the same name as temple 4, Dainichiji. It is the first of the 88 temples located in Tokushima City. The main dei...

Recently some of my photos have been used in a publication dealing with access for visually-impaired people. The photos were taken f...

Of all the Buddhist deities in Japan I think Fudo Myoo is my favorite. Associated strongly with Shingon its not surprising that statues...