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Getting Nihongo Jozued: When Good Japanese Backfires

I had intended on continuing with my series on Maizuru-yama, but this got the better of me! Enjoy!


It looked like this, but with a lot of people just standing around, and a doctor awaiting. Photo by Atikah Akhtar on Unsplash

“Bunti...

6 days ago
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The Man Who Stole a Mountain (And Changed His Identity to Match)

This mountain. Just a random mountain in the middle of Tendo. Or is it?

Last time we established that around the year 740AD a monk named Gyoki had an encounter with purple haze, and came up with the name for the mountain in the middle of T...

9 days ago
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The Heavenly Children of Dancing Crane Mountain: Maizuru-yama in Tendo

Can you see a dancing crane?

Last week I shared what I guess would be a bit of a teaser, although I never intended for that. Well, think of this as the first part of the teaser, Maizuru-Yama in Tendo City, the next mountain on my 100 Famou...

18 days ago
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"Dancing Crane Mountain": Maizuru-yama in Tendo, Yamagata

I climbed Maizuru-yama in Tendo the other day. It was quite literally a walk in the park. I originally intended for this week’s post to be about the experience, but I completely underestimated the sheer amount of stuff to write about.

I w...

23 days ago
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Yudono-san Jinja Opening Ceremony

Today was Yudono-san' Jinja’s opening ceremony for 2026. I wasn’t able to attend, but I did have some photos from the event in years gone by for you:

Passing through the beech forest on the way to Yudono-san Jinja.

Yudono-san’s torii gat...

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