As most of the remaining images to be blogged woul dbe in logical groups here are just onrelated ones, which we wanted to share.

A classical temple entrance

Old, wooden, used

Ghost houses

A shrine

The massive entrance gates

And the associated dojo

The male lion has the mouth open – the female closed… Not nice and gender equal…

Decay

Kyushu and Shikoku are snake wonderlands – plenty of grass / rice to hide and hunt and nicely warm all year round. So stride with care…

The same is true for frogs / toads

The holy cow

And the temple pomelo tree

At night we drove to a small harbour town and were able to buy some really fresh fish – sliced on site for sashimi for us

The classical 4-cut

The clay jars are used for the octopus to hide (and be caught…)

Another victim

Late night pleasure

Walk in my boots…

Small shrines

Fantastic figures

Water for cleaning

Funny figures

And a shrine

Beautiful ceiling

Small figurines are found very often

Table cloth the old fashioned way

Graveyard of the roof tiles

A bus with pilgrims – they are supposed to walk, but, well, who cares – at least they come…

Nice guard

Thirsty gods

Especially shrines are often higher up and reached by steep stairs

Care for the children

Devotions of all life parts

Spiders are now very, very active

A small frog in the loo

This one looked a bit more vicious

And these ones are just gigantic (well, they are big – including feet up to 14 cm). Mostly not very poisenous, but I would not like to walk into a net (which can happen easily as they are usually just at the height of your head…)

Clementines are grown all of Shikoku

The impact of the devastating rains in July

This way it looked quite everywhere – in mountainous terrain slides are the norm and if houses are in the way – well, you know the answer…

We had 2 typhoons while being in Japan – winds with up to 240 km/h can cause quite some damage…

No, he was fine

Leading the way for pilgrims

And a khaki tree