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
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