Hell

Many thanks to Hisashi Miyazaki and Mari Kawaguchi for organising an excellent ginko in O-Yamazaki. A full report will be posted soon but here's my response to visiting the fantastic enma - a larger than life group of sculptures depicting the King of Hell and his acolytes deciding on the fate of the newly deceased - at Hoshakuji Temple.

face to face with

THE KING OF HELL

my atheist heart shudders