After watching the Naruto Whirlpools, we drove to the town of Naruto to visit Ryōzen-ji (霊山寺), the first of the 88 Shikoku Pilgrimage temples. You may already know this, but when you decide to walk (or bike or drive) the Shikoku Pilgrimage, you just don’t start anywhere. Well, you […]
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We stopped in Zentsu-ji for just a few minutes on our way from Zenigata to Konpirasan, but it was worth it. The temple is one of the 88 temples from the Shikoku Pilgrimage and definitely must go back and spend more time there on a future trip to Takamatsu. (Notes: […]
In my Flying Dragons series, today, I want to introduce you to Unryū-zu, the Dragon among clouds, another mural from Ryōan-ji although I’m not sure this one is available to the public (I didn’t see it). This painting is attributed to Min Chō (1352-1431) a Zen monk who also was a […]
Unfortunately, I don’t have that much to tell you about Negoro-ji apart from the fact that it’s the 82th Temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage, that it is located in a forest on top of a small mountain from which the view of Sakaide, Takamatsu and parts of the Seto […]
As you may already know, Shikoku is famous among other things for its Pilgrimage of 88 Buddhist Temples. I’m sure that I will talk about it into more details another day as today I am going to focus on only one of those temples; temple number 80, Sanuki Kokubunji […]