Category: 88 Buddhist Temples

To Begin, to End

  • Thursday, March 14, 2019, Day 1
  • Temples: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
  • Tokushima / Nogaro
  • Weather: 40-55 degrees and blue skies with white clouds
  • 7.1 Miles

Begin visiting a temple by entering the gate and finish the visit with a temple’s stamp. The red images are done by rubber stamps and the black images are done with brush and ink. The process is as graceful as the stamp is beautiful.

  1. Temple #3 Gate
  2. Blossoms
  3. Temple Stamp Book

Tradition

  • Thursday, March 14, 2019, Day 1
  • Temples: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
  • Tokushima / Nogaro
  • Weather: 40-55 degrees and blue skies with white clouds
  • 7.1 Miles

Beginning to move like a Shikoku pilgrim, I continue an ancient tradition. There is a solemn reverence that quiets the soul.

  1. 1st Bell 10:04am
  2. Washing Hand 10:43
  3. Temple #4 11:57

Lucky 13

  • Tuesday, March 12, 2019, Day 00
  • Charlottesville / Tokushima
  • Weather: 45-55 degrees and blue skies with white clouds

4:00am start in Charlottesville on the 12th of March got me a 12:00pm finish in Tokushima on the 13th of March. A leap of thirteen time zones!

Don’t ask me how long it took.

  1. Japan Airline
  2. Japan
  3. Shikoku and It’s 88 Buddhist Temples