pilgranages

Updated: June 24, 2025

But beside these greater pilgranages to mountain summits and national shrines, innumerable lesser ones are made. Each district has a more or less extended circuit of its own. The number of pilgrims who make this round is exceedingly large, since it is a favorite circuit for the people not only of Shikoku, but also of central and western Japan.

Sidney Lewis Gulick - Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic