🌸 Noire Henro-san: His Father’s Name
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taying at the renovated guesthouse was fun. I was given the tour by my host, but I did my own peeking when I could. Why? To study the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Mairi Path
Stairs to Iyadani-ji Temple in Kagawa Prefecture
Legend of Mairi on Shikoku
The Mairi path, the section from Temples 71 to 78 in the Nirvana stage of Shikoku pilgrimage … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: In The Heart of A Master
Sight for a weary heart: the five-storied pagoda at Temple 70
70 Motoyama-Ji
Headquarters Temple
Niwang gate or Nio-mon Gate, which was built in the late Kamakura period, is … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: Kotohiki Park
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 ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Temple With Two Names
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 ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: Every Face on Earth
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 ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: Links in a Chain
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 ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: You Shall Pass
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 ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Moving With Grace
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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 ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Route of Worship
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 ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Return to the Path
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 ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Woman Warrior
Ōhōri Tsuruhime
Samurai Shrine
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 ➞ ➞ ➞