a woodblock print, mounted on a poster printed with pines by a shore, the woodblock print signed Hasui, sealed Kawase, printed title in red ink in Roman script as above followed by Artist - Kawase ...

That’s exactly how I feel about Miyajima Island, a gem nestled in the western part of the Inland Sea of Japan. Known as Shrine Island, Miyajima is a place where the divine seems to touch the ...

Standing 16.6 meters tall and weighing 60 tons, the gate also serves as the symbol of Miyajima island, where the shrine stands. The current gate is the ninth-generation torii. The first one is ...

25 x 38 cm. (9.8 x 15 in.) ...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--Visitors to Miyajima island here will face a ... The island is home to the famed Itsukushimajinja shrine, which is a World Heritage site and a popular spot ...

Since Japan sees the sun rise 16 hours before California, we fly backwards in time. Twenty-five hours in transit, leaving ...

Situated on Miyajima—which literally translates to “shrine island”— Itsukushima was famously built over the water, and if you catch it at high tide, the whole complex appears to be floating. Two ...

The great floating gate (O-Torii) on Miyajima island near Itsukushima shinto shrine. The Larsens say overall, they liked their coastal Japan adventure. The highlights were seeing some of the out ...

(RNS) — While the Vatican did not confirm that the Marian apparitions were real, it recognized that the devotion of the faithful to the site is undeniable. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After 40 years ...

The Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (photo: The Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons) Former president ...

The host city of the annual Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting that ends today has been reborn seven decades after ...

Cherry blossom time in Japan is – with good reason – famous the world over. For the Japanese, however, autumn is equally ...