"At least once, I’d like to make the pilgrimage to the Ise Grand Shrine.” From around the 12th ... This article by Lisa Vogt, a Washington-born and Tokyo-based photographer, originally ...

This shrine, located right alongside Irogahama beach in Fukui Prefecture, is known as "Osan-no-Joko-san," or the shrine of childbirth. Empress Consort Jingu, legend tells us, at this spot put on a ...