逆打ち
Gyaku uchi
Visiting the temples counter-clockwise
Pilgrimage
Gyaku-uchi (逆打ち) is said when you do the pilgrimage in reverse order (counter-clockwise). Doing the whole Shikoku pilgrimage in gyaku-uchi is fairly rare. This way of doing it is mostly used for a few temples.
- In English
- Visting the temples in counter-clockwise
- Other spellings
- gyaku-uchi
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