miscellanous

I hiked a mountain in ancient Japanese straw sandals (waraji), and it was awesome.

Aman Y. Agarwal

I love history, and I often wonder what life would be like if I was born in a different time and place. In pre-modern Japan, for a thousand years, Buddhist pilgrims would travel long distances wearing homemade straw sandals named waraji (草鞋). A pilgrim would typically walk 40km per day in...