Photo of the week

Itsukushima, better known as Miyajima (‘Shrine Island’), a few miles from Hiroshima, is regarded as in some sense sacred. The Shinto torii gate (top left) stands on the shore facing the great 12th-century Itsukushima shrine (bottom left). On the right, a five-storey pagoda, and part of the Senjokaku ‘hall of a thousand tatami mats’.

Tommy Teague

2024