Guide Book "Visiting the Sacred Sites of Kukai"Japan pilgrimage route

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This is a guidebook to the Shikoku Pilgrimage Route in English published by Shikoku Pilgrim Path Preservation Cooperative Association. The first part explains how to prepare for and make the pilgrimage, and the second part offers brief descriptions of the 88 main temples. This book helps you to understand the Pilgrim Path more deeply.  We also recommend you use it along with Shikoku Japan 88 Route Guide.
■SIZE
Length about 26cm/10.2inch
Width about 18cm/7inch
Thickness about 0.8cm/0.3inch
■Weight
about 325g
(Table of Contents)
Chapter 1: Time
Chapter 2: Number of days required
Chapter 3: Preparing for the trip
Chapter 4: Costs and a Budgeting
Chapter 5: How to Plan
Chapter 6: Pilgrim Goods and Things to Pay Attention To
Chapter 7: Equipment and Things to Carry
Chapter 8: Weight of the Gear
Chapter 9: Pre-departure Preparations
Chapter 10: Money
Chapter 11: Making Reservations
Chapter 12: Manners at the Sacred Sites
Chapter 13: Rules(Do’s and Don’ts)of a Pilgrim
Chapter 14: How to walk the Pilgrim Path
Chapter 15: Sleeping Outside
Chapter 16: About Takuhatsu
Chapter 17: Waterfall Training
Chapter 18: Going Home – the End of the Training
Distance chart of basic walking course for Shikoku Pilgrims
3days Model Course of the Pilgrim Path at Tokushima
Weight cart of gear to be carried by walking pilgrims (unit: gram)
■PART2   「List of Sacred Sites」 Originally published in Japanese, this renowned guidebook by Tateki Miyazaki offers detailed and practical information on how to make the 1,200-kilometer pilgrimage around the island of Shikoku. For example: when is the best time to go, how much does it cost, how to make a daily plan, what to take, what to do at each temple, what rules a pilgrim should follow, how to sleep outside, how to perform takuhatsu and waterfall training, and what to do when the journey is over. In addition, in the second half of the book, there are brief historical descriptions of 238 sacred sites along the pilgrimage route that have some relation to the 8th Century Shingon Buddhist priest Kūkai, who is also known as Kōbō Daishi.
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