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There has perhaps been no other person who has captured the spirit of Colorado quite like John Denver. His song “Rocky Mountain High” was adopted as a state song in 2007, and in 1974 he was named poet laureate of Colorado. After decades of moving from place to place, he made his final home in […]
The Yamadera area of Yamagata is best known for the eponymous temple complex, but east of it lies another sanctuary visited by far less tourists. Deeper into the woods at the back of Senju-in temple, the Mine-no-ura or “Other Yamadera” area was once a sacred place where Buddhist saint Ennin practiced his asceticism in the […]