Blisters for Buddha: Japanese pilgrims keep up 1,000-year tradition _ some for religion

AP Worldstream | May 12, 2006| | Copyright

JOSEPH COLEMAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
05-12-2006
Dateline: NARUTO, Japan
Pilgrims in straw hats and white smocks amble past cherry trees flush with blossoms. They mount the stone steps into the cool, incense-laced air of a Buddhist temple, and bow their heads in prayer.

Ryozenji, or the Temple of the Vulture's Peak, is the first of 88 stops on one of Japan's premier religious pilgrimages, a 1,440-kilometer (900-mile) trek through the mountains, craggy coastlines and verdant countryside of the island of Shikoku.

Many of the pilgrims, nearly all of them gray-haired retirees, ...

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