WOMANIST WISDOM IN THE WOOD SHOP
WOMANIST WISDOM IN THE WOOD SHOP
Sight for a weary heart: the five-storied pagoda at Temple 70
Niwang gate or Nio-mon Gate, which was built in the late Kamakura period, is … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Zenigata Sunae (coin-shaped sand art) at Kotohiki Park.
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had one more day remaining at the guesthouse in Toyohama and Kanonji, my plan was to rest easy. I bought … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Blessed. Uplifted. Encouraged. Internally renovated. That’s how I feel now after my visit to Unpen-ji, temple 66 – at the top of the world. Well, maybe not the world, … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Five hundred breathtaking images of human expression at Unpen-ji watch over all visitors!
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emple 66, Unpen-ji, has many identities on Shikoku pilgrimage. Although it is counted as being … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Typical guidance marker on the Shikoku 88 pilgrimage path, this time to Sankaku-ji, temple 65.
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f walking leads you to enlightenment, it is dojo. Dojo is where … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
As I got closer to temple 60, well-meaning people, Japanese ohenro friends and locals, took time to pass information to me. They repeated two things, a lot. One, it … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
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eople, places, and things. Are they the treasures in life that we seek? All of that is here on this pilgrimage. They exist on all walks – spiritual … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
The locations of the city temples in Imabari make it convenient to visit them all in one day… if you want. I visited the other temples in the last … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
View of the Seto Inland Sea from my bus window from Omishima for my return to the city temples in Imabari.
Korogashi is a Japanese word meaning where the pilgrim … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Ōhōri Tsuruhime
Oyamamuchi no Okami, brother of the sun goddess Amaterasu, is god of the mountains, seas, and combat. He is enshrined at Oyamamuchi. Since then, … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
A beautiful view of the sunset over the ocean and Omishima island from the guesthouse.
One’s Destination Is Never A Place, But A New Way Of Seeing … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Tatara Bridge (Tatara Ohashi) to Omishima island on the Nishiseto Expressway (Shimanami Kaidō).
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f you got on the wrong train without the ability to disembark and … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞