You walk through the mountains, and you look. In Okuyamato, the deep mountain region of southern Nara including Yoshino and Tenkawa, an art festival is held in autumn. But it is unlike an ordinary museum. The works are scattered through the mountains, the forests, beside the rivers. Visitors walk, spending a day climbing mountain paths to find the pieces, sweating as they go. "A journey through the mind," the festival is called, and the walking itself becomes the experience. A single work set down in a forest of autumn leaves; you stop, catch your breath, and face it. They are not in convenient places; only those who reach them can meet them. Okuyamato is also a land of mountain asceticism, where walking the peaks polishes the spirit, and that spirit runs through this festival. To see art, you climb a mountain; it comes close to pilgrimage.