More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

While walking the Iwami 33 Kannon Pilgrimage I was able to revisit many places I had been before. There were of course some new things...

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...

Stretching from the promontory to the west at the base of which are the ruins of Hagi castle to the old port to the east, Hagi's K...

Misumi, a small town on the Shimane coast between Hamada and Masuda has, like much of rural Japan, been depopulated over the last 60 y...

According to the legend, when Kukais mother visited him at this temple she was not allowed past the gate as being female she was impur...

After passing by Izumo Taisha, the route of the Izumo 33 Kannon Pilgrimage heads up a steep and narrow mountain lane. About 1k up the r...

Back in November I went on a 5 day walk on the Kunisaki Peninsular down in Oita, Kyushu. I have been wanting to walk the old Kunisaki...

With the increasing popularity of tablet computers and dedicated ebook readers the range of reading material available at a lower cost...

On my last day in Essouira we got up before the sun and took a cab a few miles south to a small village and walked back along the beac...

2013 is the Year of the Snake so I thought I would post some pics of that most lucky of all snakes, the White Snake. Long associated w...