More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Continuing with statues of Fudo Myoo encountered while I walked the Shikoku Pilgrimage, this first one is at temple 58, Senyuji, just ...

There is a lot to see at Nanzoin Temple. A friend once described it, critically, as like a Buddhist "theme park", but I thin...

These are a unique form of Nio that I have not seen anywhere else. They are carved as diagonal spars that support the porch roof on th...

Nanzoin Temple, a Shingon temple in Sasaguri, near Fukuoka, is a big temple complex with lots of statuary. I have already posted about...

Standing in front of this small, rural shrine in Kidani, southern Okayama, was an unusual torii. I saw another at the shrine in the mi...

Nanten Inari Shrine is located in a pretty, wooded, narrow valley in the grounds of Nanzoin Temple, between the main temple buildings ...

Until 2005, the Kuroshio  Tank at Churaumi Aquarium was the biggest in the world. The acrylic panel holding back almost 2 million gall...

Kurikara, the sword of Fudo Myoo, is often represented with a dragon wrapped around it. Occasionally Fudo himself is given a dragon he...

At the end of a very long first day of my walk over and around the Kunisaki Peninsula I stopped for the night on the banks of the reserv...

This Fudo Myo statue is about 10 to 11 meters high and is located at Nanzoin in Sasaguri, Fukuoka. Its the first temple on the ...