A Walk Around Shodoshima Day 5, Into Tonosho Mon Dec 28th I grab the source double-decker out of Tonosho heading upwards the long valley that runs north. The double-decker driver was careful to necessitate only precisely where I was heading to. All my experiences with double-decker drivers on Shodoshima accept been really positive, with every unmarried i offering assistance. I larn off where I got on yesterday afternoon together with laid out to caput dorsum downwards the valley towards Tonosho. There are clouds some but its some other warm, fine day. It's non far to the source 2 stops, both modest hermitages, together with both only off the master copy route against the base of operations of the hills. Number 49
Torin-an together with fifty
Yuku-an are fairly typical of the many hermitages on this pilgrimage route, with null exceptional inwards the architecture or statuary, but somehow really welcoming. Every i has a infinite to sit down downwards out of the Sun or rain, a toilet, together with are all really good tended. Interestingly at Yukuan was a statue of En no Gyoja, the legendary founder of Shugendo, reinforcing that these sites were primarily Shugendo inwards before times. From Yuku-an I rest off the master copy route together with hug the base of operations of the mount until reaching
Kyu Hachimangu, expose 52, together with non a temple at all, rather a modest shrine, though it does accept a modest Buddhist statue inwards front end of each of the 3 altars, something that was outlawed at the nascency of modern Nippon when Buddhas together with kami were artificially separated past times authorities order, (think unscrambling eggs).
 |
| The biggest Juniper tree inwards Japan, Shodoshima |
Right adjacent to the shrine is what appears to hold upwards a modest grove of tall trees, but which turns out to hold upwards a unmarried tree, together with non exclusively that, it is a National Natural Monument, the biggest Juniper tree inwards
Japan. With a xvi meter girth the torso splits into 3 which is why it looks similar a grove rather than a unmarried tree. It is said to hold upwards 1,500 years old. It is inwards the grounds of
Hosho-in temple which is expose 54, together with alongside the diverse buildings that brand upwards the complex is
Hodobo Temple expose 51. From hither it is closed to the Tonosho town centre which the temple overlooks, but before reaching the town the trail heads along together with upwards the hillside to some other modest temple,
Kannon-do, expose 55. From hither it is forthwith a footpath that goes pretty much conduct upwards the hillside to modest temple,
Gyoja-do, expose 56. As farther bear witness of the Shugendo connecter this modest temple enshrines En no Gyoja, the founder. The views forthwith expand over the town below to the islands beyond. The vermillion pagoda of my adjacent halt clearly visible ascent higher upwards the town's rooftops. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 sign points upwards behind the temple together with at that topographic point I honour a huge stone wrapped with a
shimenawa.
 |
| Sacred stone at Gyoja-do Temple |
Most large rocks accept legends associated with them, but I cannot honour out most this one. The path downwards before long reaches the border of town together with I caput towards the pagoda. But source I must cross over to some other island. What nosotros telephone telephone Shodoshima is genuinely non i island, but two. The southwest corner is an isle called Maejima, but it is separated from
Shodoshima itself past times a really narrow strait, narrower than many rivers, then inwards essence it appears equally i island. This is the
Dobuchi Strait, together with the
Guinness Book of World Records lists it equally the narrowest strait inwards the world. I cross over at its narrowest department where it is less than 10 meters broad together with demeanour on towards the nearby pagoda.
 |
| The pagoda at Saikoji Temple |
Jake Davies A Walk Around Shodoshima Day iv Part II A Walk Around Shodoshima Day v Part II © JapanVisitor.com
Inside Track Nippon For Kindle Devices Sumber https://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/