Japanese Islands, Art and more...
Barely more than a kilometer after leaving Ryozen-ji, pilgrims on the Shikoku Pilgrimage will encounter their first stop, Gokuraku-ji. There’s some excitation arriving there. This time, it’s for real, the pilgrimage is underway, it’s too late to change one’s mind. This is the second temple,...
Kikugetsu-tei is the largest tea house in Ritsurin Garden. It is also the one tea house that is open every day to the public. There, you can have matcha while enjoying the view of the South Pond of the garden. Sometimes it is...
Fall is coming! And with it, the various Fall matsuri, which are numerous in the Setouchi area, probably because they’re harvest matsuri, and we’re still in a quite rural part of Japan. Among them, one of my favorite matsuri. I try to never miss it...
Nagao-ji, located in the small town of Nagao, itself a part of Sanuki City, in the Kagawa Prefecture, is the 87th Temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage. It’s a pretty small and “urban” temple. It doesn’t really have anything mind-blowing about it, but it has...
If you’ve heard of Takamatsu, you’ve probably have heard of Ritsurin Garden. And if you’ve heard of Ritsurin Garden, you’ve probably seen this view: However, what you may not know is that the artificial hill where you’re standing enjoying this view is...
When you visit Negoro-ji, the 82th Temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage, you will be welcomed by a very unfriendly looking creature: the Ushi-Oni! This “cow-demon” is one of the mythical creatures of Japan. If you want to know more about this particular...
Today, we’re leaving the Setouchi area a little bit. We’re even leaving Kagawa Prefecture to head to its neighbor in the South East of Shikoku, namely Tokushima Prefecture. More precisely, we’re going to the city of Naruto where our destination of the day is. I’m...
Last week, Douglas Brooks, who is currently in Kagawa, was invited to Shodoshima for something very special and fascinating. He invited my friend Cathy and I to tag along. So we took the ferry to Kusakabe on this cold morning of late January, and from...
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