Japanese

Ten thousand vermilion gates climb a mountain south of Kyoto, packed so close together that the forest path turns into…

Walk the length of Sanjusangendo in Kyoto and a thousand and one gilded figures watch you go, row on row,…

For three days each January, a temple in Nara brings out a painting it keeps hidden the rest of the…

In a cave in the hills behind Kamakura, people kneel at a spring and wash their money. They set coins…

Izanami made an entire country by stirring the ocean with a spear. She died giving birth to fire. Then she…

The sun had shut herself in a cave, and eight million gods stood outside it in the dark, arguing. They…

The greatest goddess in Japanese myth once got so hurt that she quit. She walked into a cave, rolled a…