A Bibliograpy of over 400 books and articles about the pilgrimage in Enlish and Japanese (mostly the later). Compiled by David MORETON. (Excel Spreadsheet format)
Tiger Toda Productions
Tommi Mendel spent 9 months on the henro trail interviewing walking henro and has produced an ethnographic documentary film about the pilgrimage entitled ARUKIHENRO: Walking Pilgrims in Shikoku, Japan. Devout hikers or adventurers on a quest for themselves?. The film has ben screened at several international ethnographic film festivals, including Bilan du Film Ethnographique in Paris, France and Worldfilm Festival of Visual Culture in Tartu, Estonia. It highlights the reasons and motivations of today's walking pilgrims, as well as their quest for personal change along the 88 Temples' Pilgrimage, and is available for purchace at his web site. Highly recommended.
