Background Information on My Aki Meguri

Here is a guide to all the background information regarding "how I did it."


Prospectus: how I first announced this project to my friends

• A Mission to the Gods
• The Logbook (with a sample entry)
• The Journal
• A Request for Support (with letters in English and Japanese)
• A Request for Corporate Sponsorship
• A Tribute to the many Donors

To Be a Pilgrim: the mechanics of pilgrimage

• a map of the entire course
• a record of my progress
• the places I prayed each day
• information on my prayer routine
• a handwritten copy of the hannya shingyo (the Heart Sutra)
• a discussion of o-settai, the custom of giving gifts to pilgrims

Connected Japan, a look back at an old dream