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| | Guide to Japanese Pilgrims, Pilgrimages, Holy Mountains, Sacred Shrines |
 | | The first type is exemplified by the pilgrimage to 33 Sites Sacred to Kannon in Western Japan and the pilgrimage to 88 Holy Sites of Shikoku, in which one makes a circuit of a series of temples or holy places, sometimes separated by great distances, in a set order. |
 | | In many ways the modern pilgrimage in Japan is a thinly veiled disguise for tourism, stripped in large part of religious meaning. |
 | | In Japan the shakujou is still used by monks, pilgrims, and practitioners of Shugendou 修験道, a school of Buddhism that teaches ascetic practices in the mountains (see En no gyouja 役行者). |
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