Pilgrimage Notebook (Nokyocho) - Recommended by the Saigoku Pilgrimage Association - Saigoku Thirty-Three Kannon Pilgrimage - Compact design with wate

●While some places sell them locally, others do not, so it's best to prepare your preferred item in advance.

Product Description ●This is a pilgrimage notebook with a gold brocade cover featuring gold thread on a navy background. ●It's a binder-style notebook with an easy-to-open string closure. The adjustable string is loosely tied, so the pages won't close immediately, making it easy to hold and write when receiving stamps. ●Each stamp page has a space to write the temple name and date of visit, and the adjacent page has a color watercolor print that can be viewed side-by-side when opened. Another page has the sect, principal image, founder, founding date, and hymn printed on it.

●The watercolor landscapes are also convenient for reminiscing about your trip.

●Because it's a binder-style notebook with a string closure, it can be removed and used separately.

●The pattern placement varies from item to item.

●To prevent ink bleed-through, paper is inserted between the sealed Japanese paper pages.

●The book begins with a color illustration of Kannon, the Heart Sutra, the Ten-Verse Kannon Sutra, space for collecting stamps from 33 temples (Kegonji Temple has 3 pages), space for the extra temples of Hokkiin, Gangyo-ji, and Hanayamain Bodaiji, followed by blank pages.

●At the 33rd temple, "Tanigumi-san Kegonji," you can receive three types of goshuin (temple stamps): Oizuri-do (future), Mangan-do (past), and Hondo (present).

●Hokkiin, the mausoleum of Dōtoku Shōnin, the founder of the Saigoku pilgrimage, and the extra temples of Gangyo-ji and Hanayamain Bodaiji, which have a deep connection to Emperor Kazan, who revived the Saigoku pilgrimage, are also visited along with the 33 Kannon.

19.1cm (height) x 13.8cm (width) x 2.0cm (depth) Approximately 270g Cover: Brocade binding Pages: High-quality paper, string-bound binder style Space for pilgrimage entries: 33 Kannon pilgrimage sites (3 pages for Kegonji Temple) + 3 extra pilgrimage sites + 6 blank pages