Chikumashobo
Our Center started research activities in 2000 as “the Society for the Study of the Shikoku Henro and Pilgrimages of the World”, with members from the academic staff of the faculties of Law and Letters, and Education of Ehime University. Our cross-disciplinary collaborative projects and publications were highly evaluated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2014. That same year was the 1200th anniversary of the Shikoku Henro, which also helped to raise popular interest. In 2015, the Research Center was affiliated with the Faculty of Law and Letters, and later, in April 2019, it became a university-wide Center.