![]() This sensation has been experienced by many fellow pilgrims who I have escorted on pilgrimage, foreigners who are not necessarily interested in Buddhism but are engaging in an interesting journey into the hinterlands of Japan, participating in a living ancient tradition. When entering the precincts of many of these ancient sites, it feels as though you are quite literally stepping through a misty veil into a liminal space that is beyond here and now, yet somehow even more luminously real. These sacred places have been visited by pilgrims for over a thousand years and were probably established on sites that were sacred before that. I have undertaken the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage many times and I am the only foreigner designated as an official pilgrimage guide (sendatsu). I also told you she was really interesting and had cool experiences. Her story about ghostly land and the oharai was the first one I read in our little series. Welcome back, okay are you ready to get into today’s stories? Yeah, me, too. But today, we have more what the?! and eyebrow raising tales to hear. ![]() From next episode, we’ll be business as usual with something new I have up my sleeve. Here we are on the fourth and final installment of our Listeners’ True Spooky Tales. Hello there, this is Thersa Matsuura and you’re listening to Uncanny Japan.
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