In September of 2001, I took the first step of a ten-week, thousand-mile-plus journey down an ancient highway, through an ancient heartland, and around an ancient pilgrimage course in Japan.
Today I want to offer you vignettes of the first leg of my Aki Meguri or "Autumn Journey," the more-than-300-miles of the Old Tokaido, in this episode of
TEMPLE TALES!