Field Report: Zōjō-ji, Tōkyō, Japan (11 November 2016)

As a rigidly conservative Catholic, I’m not drawn to Japanese temples for spiritual reasons, but I occasionally poke around them out of an interest in architecture and history. In the case of Tōkyō’s Zōjō-ji, there wasn’t much left to admire in terms of original architecture – most of the compound having burned down during theContinue reading “Field Report: Zōjō-ji, Tōkyō, Japan (11 November 2016)”