The dappled morning light illuminates the damp forest soil beneath our feet, while overhead the tops of the tall black pine, cedar and cypress trees sway in the breeze. Komorebi (木漏れ日), our guide ...
Hiking on the Nakasendo trail in the Gifu and Nagano Prefectures of central Japan, I encounter more Buddhist jizo statues, waterfalls with ancient lore, and family farms than people. Such is the ...
It was late November, and I was standing in an ancient beech forest at the edge of Towada-Hachimantai National Park in Japan's Tohoku region. The area, deep in the Ōu Mountains on the northern tip of ...
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