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 Ushi-Oni, may I advise you […]
Negoro-ji
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I’m not exactly sure who or what this statue represents, but I like it very much. It can be found in Negoro-ji, the 82th temple on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
On Monday, I went to Negoro-ji. I believe that November is the best month of the year to go to this temple. Unless you don’t like red… More pictures coming soon…
Ohenro-san are the pilgrims who walk (or bike, or drive) the 88 Temples Shikoku Pilgrimage. They can be recognized by – among other things – their white clothes and their hat.
The Ushi-Oni (literaly “Cow Demon”), sometimes called Gyūki is a mythical creature that can be found in various parts of Japan. Despite its name, it doesn’t really have a definite shape. Sometimes it will have the body of a crab or a spider, some other times it will actually […]
As you most likely already know, when you do the Shikoku Pilgrimage, or simply when you visit its temples with the appropriate “notebook” you can receive a very nice calligraphy of the temple’s “official signature” in exchange of 300 Yen (you can see some of them in the pages […]
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 […]