Rain falls like handfuls of pebbles being softly scattered on the roof as I like in bed. I’m wrapped in warmth not only from my cozy duvet but an earlier dram of tangy bodaimoto sake, a brew whose origins trace back to 15th-century monks at Shoryaku Temple on nearby Mount Bodai, the birthplace of sake. This is Cofunia , an inn located in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, along the Yamanobe-no-Michi, a trail known as Japan’s oldest walking path and mentioned in Japan’s eighth-century “Kojiki” and “Nihon