Category: Sacred Landscapes
A journey through Japan’s spiritual places, where mountains, forests, temples and pilgrimage routes form a deep connection between nature and belief. These articles explore landscapes not only as locations, but as spaces of reflection, devotion and transformation.
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Shugendō: The Mountain Ascetics of Japan
Read more: Shugendō: The Mountain Ascetics of JapanAcross Japan, mountains have long been regarded as places where the boundary between the human world and the spiritual realm becomes thinner. Beyond their…
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Forest Shrines and Sacred Trees
Read more: Forest Shrines and Sacred TreesIn Japan, forests are often more than natural environments. Around many Shinto shrines, trees and wooded areas have been preserved as sacred spaces where…
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The Floating Torii of Miyajima
Read more: The Floating Torii of MiyajimaFew images represent the connection between Japanese spirituality and the natural world as vividly as the great torii gate of Miyajima. Standing in the…
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Kumano Kodō Pilgrimage
Read more: Kumano Kodō PilgrimageThe Kumano Kodō is one of Japan’s most remarkable networks of ancient pilgrimage routes, crossing the forested mountains of the Kii Peninsula in Wakayama…
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Mount Kōya: A Mountain of Meditation
Read more: Mount Kōya: A Mountain of MeditationHigh among the forested peaks of Wakayama Prefecture lies a place where architecture and nature seem to exist as a single creation. Ancient cedar…