More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

heading south out of Saiki, my next stop would be Nobeoka, and I had a couple of choices of route. Probably the prettiest would be the c...

At the end of my 17th day of walking I arrived at Kiyotakiji, the 35th temple of the pilgrimage, located on a mountainside overlooking T...

Tokosan Dainichi-ji is an urban temple in the old castle town of Saiki on the coast of southern Oita in Kyushu. I visited it on my 16th ...

Another photographic interlude of some of my favorite photos. Diagonal, shadow, and rust.... can't go wrong with that combination. ...

Back in June we took some friends to a nightime outdoor kagura festival, the first time in a long time that I had watched some kagura. ...

Onigawara, "DemonTiles", are the , usually ceramic, tiles decorated with the face of a demon usually found on the roofs of tem...

In the early evening I was heading to my minshuku and crossed the river. The strong light and fairly calm surface produced some quite ni...

The Kanmom Straits, one of the entrances into the Seto Inland Sea, separate Honshu and Kyushu, and at its narrowest is only about 800 me...

Saiki Castle Saiki, on the coast of southern Oita Prefecture was a castle town in the Edo Period. Built in 1606 by Mori Takamasa, Tsuruy...

Though it is numbered 33 in the 88 temples of the pilgrimage, Honmyoin is often the first temple visited as it is located close to Sasag...