6 worlds – a blog about life in Japan and other topics

Ikkyuji

In the time I have spent in Japan I have enjoyed visiting temples and other places associated with famous people

Hi everyone! It’s been a while and I have some catching up to do with a couple of posts about

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” Thus states one of the most famous and certainly one of the most enigmatic

Uzbekistan is a place I had never really imagined visiting. I knew little about the place, aside from some basic

A couple of weeks ago I finally found the time to visit Nara. Nara is a small city nestled in

This year American Thanksgiving happened to coincide with a Japanese holiday called Labor Thanksgiving Day. Since I had off from

Sakoshi is a little seaside town bordering Ako and it is one of my favorite places to visit. Here are

Last weekend I went once again to Kyoto, this time for a second trip up Mount Hiei to visit Enryakuji

North of Himeji on top of Shosha mountain there is a thousand year old Tendai Buddhist temple complex called Engyoji

Just north of Ako, a twenty minute bike ride from home is a beautiful little mountain called Amako Mountain (尼子山).

I has been a while since I have posted here, so now is a good time to post an update.

I’ve been playing with a new camera lately, rather than just relying on my phone for pictures (Thanks Jim!). Here

After our guides left us, we headed towards the Philosopher’s Path, so named since Nishida Kitaro, founder of the Kyoto

It’s been a while since I have posted anything on this blog, and to those of you who visit from

After a pause for more than two years, because of the corona virus pandemic, Japanese festivals are finally coming back!