More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

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Manai Shrine is another of the 6 shrine pilgrimage around the Ou District of Izumo. It is also listed in both the Izumo Fudoki and the E...

For the second day of this virtually unknown pilgrimage I start at the base of Mount Sanbe and head towards Shizuma, just a few kilome...

Jyo-onji, the 24th temple on the pilgrimage was most curious. A very simple wooden building was the only structure. Founded at the en...

My posts on the round windows of Japan have been popular, so here is a selection of ones I've found recently. This first one has t...

Rokusho Shrine, like all the other shrines in this part of Izumo, have altars to the land kami Kojin, represented as a serpent made of r...

Okazaki Shrine in the fishing village of Yuki on the Tokushima coast is a small local shrine, now made of concrete. There was no infor...

Located in a grove of trees surrounded by rice paddies, Rokusho Shrine is, like Iya Shrine and Adakaya Shrine , part of a 6 shrine pil...

Oimatsu Shrine is located just off the main road running through Sasaguri, northeast of Fukuoka. I visited at sunrise on the second da...

Adakaya Jinja Adakaya Shrine is most well known as being the starting point and destination of the Horanenya, the massive boat festival th...