David Stanley
@southpacifictravel
male Nanaimo, BC, Canada
David Stanley has authored numerous travel guidebooks for Lonely Planet and Moon Handbooks. He has seen every country in the world and visited all but one.
Fine stonework surrounds the Shinbyo Tower at Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, culminates in the Shinbyo Tower, mausoleum of the first Edo shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa (1543-1616). It faces west toward the ancient capital Kyoto. 
Prayer charms intended to bring good luck hang around a tree at Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
Stone lanterns dedicated by military commanders who served under Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu line Byousho Sando, the path leading to the mausoleum at Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
This stairway climbs from the central complex at the Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
A gate leads to the central enclosure at Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
Fine Japanese craftsmanship employing lacquers and gold foils is on display at Shaden, the main building of Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
David Stanley posing before a line of torii gates at Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
A guardian armed with bow and arrows keeps watch over the two-story Romon Gate at Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
During the sakura season cherry blossoms bloom above the Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
