More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

I won't be posting for a week or so as I am off on the pilgrim trail, and as we are approaching Halloween I thought these would be a...

Fukura is a district of Usuki, and as I walked into town I stopped in at Fukura Tenmangu. Like quite a few shrines it was actually a tem...

Located in Seiyo, about halfway between Uwajima and Ozu in a fairly remote part of the prefecture is the Ehime Prefecture Museum of Hist...

Mangatsu Temple is right next to the Usuki Stone Buddhas. The current buildings date from 1950 though it was established in the Muromach...

Tanemaji Tanema-ji, which means "seed sowing temple" is temple number 24 of the pilgrinmage. The name refers to a legend that ...

On a hilltop among the Stone Buddhas of Usuki is a small Hiyoshi Shrine. One of about 4,000 Hiyoshi Shrines around the current, it is a ...

Along the 1,200k Shikoku Pilgrimage known as Ohenro there are hundreds of "rest huts". Often little more than the kind of picn...

Just outside the old castle town of Usuki in southern Oita are a collection of truly magnificent Buddhist stone carvings known as the Us...

Not much I can say about this post other than the title...... The first was one of the large umbrella often found at shrine or temp...

While driving along a remote mountain road in the west of Hiroshima Prefecture I was surprised to come across a fairly large, modern fac...