Tag: Kyoto pilgrimage

13 Temple Kyoto Pilgrimage

Prompted by Nick Teele’s account of reviving a 33 temple pilgrimage, a website reader from Denmark named Esben Andreasen has submitted an account of his own 13 temple pilgrimage to Kyoto. The piece below is an edited translation of his article which originally appeared in a Danish journal. Esben’s first visit to Japan was in …Read More

A Kyoto Pilgrimage

A KYOTO PILGRIMAGEby N. J. Teele About twenty years ago, walking down Teramachi-dori from Shijo, I came across a musty little shop specializing in pre-Meiji wasōbon (books printed and bound in the traditional Japanese manner).  Among them, I found a slim rather-worn and weathered book which was titled  Kannongyō Hayayomi eshō, which roughly translates “An …Read More

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