--PILGRIMAGE PICTURE OF THE MONTH--

Fellow Henro (Dōgyō Ninin)

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Taken by the owner of Minshuku Okadaya (Kagawa-Ken, Shikoku) at his minshuku just outside the sanmon (front gate) of Yakuriji, Temple 85, in Kagawa Prefecture, in the Spring of 2008. Tom (on the right) had come down from Tōkyō to walk for a few days again and we spent the night here. The woman in the middle is another henro that i (on the left) had crossed paths with several times over the past few days and had spent some time talking to at Zentsuji. This picture shows the very spontaneous and pleasent comraderie that springs up between henro on the trail.