More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

It had been a very, very mild winter so far. I'd already bought seed potatoes for planting. Then winter came. We get a fair amount...

The two latest masks I completed. Every winter I have a rather optimistic plan to finish lots of new masks. Summers are too humid to m...

The most common motif by far  used in the designs on manhole covers in japan is the cherry blossom. Considering the central place occu...

Pronounced Kifune but written Kibune, this small local shrine in the outskirts of Iizuka is a branch of the famous Kifune shrine north...

TKP Garden City is another of the high rises built along Heiwa Dori, the road leading to the Peace Park in Hiroshima. Its liste...

There were a lot of frogs at Shohoji, temple 93 on the Kyushu Pilgrimage. The word for "frog", kaeru, is the word for "...

Located north of Kochi City, Zenrakuji was not temple number 30 for almost 100 years. It was/is located right next to a big shrine, now ...

I began the third day of my walk around Kyushu visiting Nanzoin in Sasaguri, though this was not one of the 108 pilgrimage temples on ...

After Colchester we stopped in at the Olympic Park in London. The distinctive Aquatics centre was designed by Zaha Hadid, who is...

The final post on some of the multitude of statues at Nanzoin temple in Sasaguri, Fukuoka. here is a nice tableau of the shichifukujin...