Look at what came in the mail a few days ago:     Yep! It’s a Ohenro-san Lego (a Shikoku Pilgrim)! Ok sure, it’s not an actual one. I think it’s supposed to be ninja master or something along those lines, but that was my reaction when I saw

  I can’t believe I never posted anything about Yashima-ji on this blog. It’s time to change this. What about, right now?   So, Yashima-ji is located on the Yashima plateau, in the north-east of Takamatsu, and it is the 84th temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage. It is said to

    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.    

  While I mention Kōbō-Daishi quite often, I never talked in detail about him. And as this post will mostly be about the ceremony I attended last June in Zentsūji for his birthday, maybe now is a good time to tell you a little bit about his life. I obviously won’t write a

  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

  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