I’m red-faced. All this time, I had assumed that Aki-no-Miyajima meant that the best season to visit Miyajima is in the autumn, with the mountain foliage turning colorful hues of red, orange and yellow.
Located deep in the mountains of eastern Shimane Prefecture, Gakuen-ji is one of the most historic Buddhist temples in the region. Its roots go back to the beginning of Buddhism in Japan and is said to have been founded at the request of the first reigning empress in the country’s recorded history.…
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The first Japanese Buddhist nuns were not welcome in Japan. It's recorded that three Japanese women were the first people of Japan to receive any sort of