Japan Shrines & Temples Coloring Book

About this book

Color your way through Japan's sacred places — all sixty of them real.

This book gathers thirty Shinto shrines and thirty Buddhist temples, and nothing else: the great shrine of Ise and the giant rope of Izumo, Zenko-ji's vast hall and the bamboo grove of Hokoku-ji, a torii gate standing in Lake Biwa, a vermilion shrine inside a sea cave, the cat temple of Gotoku-ji and the moss-green Fudo of Hozen-ji.

Every place appears as a two-page spread: on one side, a full-color photo guide with a short, fascinating story — including how to tell a shrine from a temple — and on the other, a detailed coloring page of the very same view. A guide at the front shows you how to print only the coloring pages at home and save your color ink.

Inside you will find: • 30 shrines — Ise Jingu, Izumo Taisha, Usa Jingu, Dazaifu Tenmangu, Hakone Shrine, Motonosumi's 123 torii gates, and more • 30 temples — Zenko-ji, Eihei-ji, Chuson-ji, the Ninja Temple of Kanazawa, the Daruma temple Katsuo-ji, and more • 60 full-color photo guides with the history of each place (about 90–100 words each) • None of these sixty places appeared in our previous Japan coloring books

A relaxing pilgrimage from Hokkaido to Kyushu — no plane ticket required.