Nice little Onsen

I stayed here with my Japanese family the Kaori`s. The owner of the place was very fun and he gave us a brief tour of the area, including a traditional thatched "middle class" house, some strange scarecrows with the faces of dis-used gaijjin (foreign) dummies and the temple with its intricate washing rituals. water from right to left, same water wash the right hand and put into your mouth and spit out before replacing the utencil scoop side down back on the fountain. So many things in Japan seem to connect - with regards to the use of objects within rituals, c.f the tea ceremony.