Pilgrims Until We Die

The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan''s fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walked it without ceasing, creating a tradition of unending pilgrimage that continues in the present era, both by pilgrims on foot and by others in cars. Some spend decades walking the pilgrimage, while oth...