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If you’re reading this, I’m on the mountains. The Akinomine Autumn’s Peak Ritual officially started at 12 noon today. I’m probably halfway up Haguro-san by now.

This is my fifth Akinomine ritual, my first was back in 2017. A lot has changed since then. For starters, there are now 120 yamabushi instead of the 160+ they had my first time around. There are…

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