the nearly 400-year-old Shinkyo Bridge serves as the sacred gateway to Nikko and the Toshogu Shrine complex. Hiroshi Okamoto The forest trail I was hiking into the Kiso Mountains of Japan had the ...

I’m in Nikko National Park, in Japan’s Tochigi prefecture, at the foot of three sacred peaks known collectively ... walk from the 17th-century Shinkyo Bridge, which forms the entrance to ...

Titled “Masterpiece Swords, Sacred Treasures and Ritual Implements of Nikko Futarasan jinja shrine ... “I selected precious pieces from one of Japan’s five major collections,” said ...