No food, only thought
I love the energy and colour of most festivals in Japan. (And the food stalls.) The Autumn Thinking Festival, at Osaka’s Tenmangu shrine, isn’t your average shindig. First off, you’ve got to find it. Usually that just means following the noise and the crowds. I made my way to the shrine for the evening, and […]
A good friend called Ema
At many a shrine, rows and rows of wooden votive plaques are hung up in various places. They’re called ema (the kanji literally mean ‘picture horse‘.) Visitors write their wishes, hopes and dreams on the ema in the hope they’ll come true. Aww. How optimistic. I wonder how many trees have been sacrificed to the […]
