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Photos from Nikko and the temple blocks and shintoistic schrines.
They are lying more or less together in a big block.
The bridge is called Shinkyo, which means holy bridge, and forms the entrance to the block.
There is between others the buddhist temple Rinnoji, the temple which is in restoration now,
the headquarter of the Tendai sect.
The following photos are coming from the shintoistic Nikko Toshogu, a block in the woods,
dededicated to the first of the Tokugawa shoguns. The family Tokugawa held the power as shogun of Japan from 1603 to 1868.
In the Nikko Toshogu are many buildings. There is for example the building with woodcarvings with apes,
includingr the wellknown not-hearing, not-seeing, be-silent, which is called Shinkyu-Sha , stable of the holy greyl
(because there is somewhere there the sculpture of a hourse).
The buildings with the representations of elephants are called Sanjinko. The author of the woodcarvings was Kano Tanyu.
Nikko, renovating world heritage in the most thorough of ways
The gate Yomeimon. The birds are part of the Kairo, woodcarving, part of the wall around the central buildings
The gate Yomeimon. The groupes with figures are called Sennin and are deirived from Chinese mythology.
Taiyu-in Reibyo, the mausoleum for Tokugawa Iemitsu, the thirth Tokugawa shogun
Lake Chuzenji & Kegon falls
Kegon falls
Lake Chuzenji
Lake Chuzenji
Matsuyama Castle
around Uwajima
Uwajima
Uwajima "bull sumo" (ushizumo) arena
Ushizumo point system
Uwajima Castle
At the Ashizuri Temple grounds - 1 of the 88 stops on the Shikoku pilgrimage,
in the footsteps of Koibo Daishi, founder of the Shinagon Buddhist sect
(and whose grave is on Mount Koya)
Ashizuri
Ashizuri
Ashizuri
Ashizuri - the turtle rock
Ashizuri is well known mainly because of the cape, the most South point of Shikoku
West Coast of Shikoku 3
Hakusan Domon
Hakusan Domon
In the harbour of Tosashimizu
Tatsukushi
Tatsukushi coral reefs
Tatsukushi
Tatsukushi
