Just a mile from Dogo Spa is the 14th-century Ishiteji temple, one of the 88 stages of the springtime Buddhist pilgrimage around Shikoku defined by Kobo Daishi, founder of Shingon esoteric Buddhism.
Ishiteji is one of the temples in a Buddhist pilgrimage.
But perhaps because within all of us there continues to live younger more idealistic lawyers-a whisper of the lawyers we were at the beginning of our professional lives-we are here today because we are not ready to let go of the promise of legal services.