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A fine snow falls about Myōshin-ji's Lecture Hall.
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🕯️📿THE IMPERMANENCE OF ALL THINGS🙏🕯️
For one week from mid-October each year Tōrin-in (東林院), a sub-temple of Myōshin-ji, illuminates its main garden with 800 candles.
The "Bontō no akari ni shitashimu-kai" (梵燈のあかりに親しむ会) is intended as an elegant form of prayer. -
Most of Kyōto's Rinzai temple complexes are known by similar nicknames according to what they were/are famed for...
🧮Myōshin-ji (妙心寺) = 'Soroban-zura' (算盤面), 'The Face of Abacus' (frugal accounting, austere conditions, strict regulations).
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5) For an all too brief moment the Myōshin-ji (妙心寺) sub-temple of Chōkei-in (長慶院) allows visitors to come and enjoy its gorgeous wisteria.
Nearby Kameya Shigehisa (亀屋重久) provides wisteria-inspired kinton🙌
#藤 #wisteria #Myoshinji #亀屋重久 #妙心寺 -
The weather forecast couldn't have been more accurate.
I left my house under blue skies. Thirty minutes later I was a snowman and the whole city was blanketed in white.
#Kyoto #Myoshinji #京都 #妙心寺 #snow #snowman #snowdaruma #雪だるま #zen
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The weather forecast couldn't have been more accurate.
I left my house under blue skies. Thirty minutes later I was a snowman and the whole city was blanketed in white.
#Kyoto #Myoshinji #京都 #妙心寺 #snow #snowman #snowdaruma #雪だるま #zen
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The weather forecast couldn't have been more accurate.
I left my house under blue skies. Thirty minutes later I was a snowman and the whole city was blanketed in white.
#Kyoto #Myoshinji #京都 #妙心寺 #snow #snowman #snowdaruma #雪だるま #zen
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The weather forecast couldn't have been more accurate.
I left my house under blue skies. Thirty minutes later I was a snowman and the whole city was blanketed in white.
#Kyoto #Myoshinji #京都 #妙心寺 #snow #snowman #snowdaruma #雪だるま #zen
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The snow is mostly gone now, but this was my walk home the other evening🥶🥰
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🤔The 'meditative drop' is made from gotu kola (Asiatic pennywort) and flavoured with yuzu oil (from fruit grown at the temple).
At the heart of the sweet (letting you know your meditation is over) is cedar powder, believed to help with digestion🍬🧘♂️🧘♀️🧘🧘♂️🧘♀️🧘🙌
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💧A DROP OF ZEN (ひと粒の禅)🫴
Today's afternoon snack is a little unusual...a hard candy sold by the nearby temple of Taizō-in (退蔵院).
👅🍬As the sweet dissolves (over 7 minutes) empty your mind, relax your body and experience a refreshing moment of zen😇✨
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Tōrin-in celebrates Koshōgatsu during the 2nd half of January (小豆粥で初春を祝う会).
Guests are first served 'fuku-cha' (福茶), a tea made with the year's first drawn water.
Plums, resistant to the cold and a symbol of longevity, are eaten to cleanse the mouth and dispel any 'evil'. -
For most communities the New Year began with the first full moon of the first month.
It was customary to eat 'azuki-gayu' (小豆粥), a rice gruel mixed with red adzuki beans, for health and to exorcise evil spirits.
Red was considered a protective colour, especially against disease.#littlenewyear #newyear #azuki #beans #gruel #Torinin #Myoshinji
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For most communities the New Year began with the first full moon of the first month.
It was customary to eat 'azuki-gayu' (小豆粥), a rice gruel mixed with red adzuki beans, for health and to exorcise evil spirits.
Red was considered a protective colour, especially against disease.#littlenewyear #newyear #azuki #beans #gruel #Torinin #Myoshinji
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For most communities the New Year began with the first full moon of the first month.
It was customary to eat 'azuki-gayu' (小豆粥), a rice gruel mixed with red adzuki beans, for health and to exorcise evil spirits.
Red was considered a protective colour, especially against disease.#littlenewyear #newyear #azuki #beans #gruel #Torinin #Myoshinji
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For most communities the New Year began with the first full moon of the first month.
It was customary to eat 'azuki-gayu' (小豆粥), a rice gruel mixed with red adzuki beans, for health and to exorcise evil spirits.
Red was considered a protective colour, especially against disease.#littlenewyear #newyear #azuki #beans #gruel #Torinin #Myoshinji
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For most communities the New Year began with the first full moon of the first month.
It was customary to eat 'azuki-gayu' (小豆粥), a rice gruel mixed with red adzuki beans, for health and to exorcise evil spirits.
Red was considered a protective colour, especially against disease.#littlenewyear #newyear #azuki #beans #gruel #Torinin #Myoshinji
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🌾LITTLE NEW YEAR🙏
Before the New Year celebrations wrap up, there is one more observance to be made on January 15th.
Tōrin-in preserves the tradition of 'Koshōgatsu' (小正月 'Little New Year'), a once-popular ritual in rural areas, where people would pray for good harvests.
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🌨️🏔️SNOW MUSINGS❄️☃️
In the traditional calendar January starts with a period known as 'lesser cold' (小寒 'shōkan'), soon to be followed by 'greater cold' (大寒 'daikan')...
"Parsley flourishes" (芹乃栄 January 5th-9th), "springs thaw" (水泉動 10th-14th), and "pheasants start to call" (雉始雊 15th-19th).#Kyoto #traditionalcalendar #京都 #Japan #snowday #snow #zen #Myoshinji
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👶THE SAL TREE💀
"The sound of the Gion Shōja bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sāla flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline. The proud do not endure, they are like a dream on a spring night..."
-The Tale of the Heike (平家物語).#HeikeMonogatari #平家物語 #saltree #Buddha #Buddhism #zen #Myoshinji #Torinin
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Last year chief priest Nishikawa Genbō (西川玄房) spelt out 'banri seifū no aki' (万里清風秋), a zen phrase that might be translated as "when you get rid of earthly desires, a fresh breeze blows in your heart".
If you look closely the '万' & '里' are written on lanterns. -
27 years ago, during renovations of the temple's main hall, Tōrin-in's head priest struck upon the idea of recycling old tiles as candle saucers.
From then on he arranged the candles each year to form a different message, the event acting as a prayer to erase earthly desires🕯️
#梵燈のあかりに親しむ会 #lantern #lanternlightup #lightup #Torinin #zen #Myoshinji
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🕯️📿THE IMPERMANENCE OF ALL THINGS🙏🕯️
For one week from mid-October each year Tōrin-in (東林院), a sub-temple of Myōshin-ji, illuminates its main garden with 800 candles.
The "Bontō no akari ni shitashimu-kai" (梵燈のあかりに親しむ会) is intended as an elegant form of prayer.
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Shōkyū also promotes a special service for 'lost information' that has proven popular with programmers (that have either lost their work or had it replaced) and writers (who have had work rejected).
Nevertheless some religious figures have frowned upon the idea of such a memorial.
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🪱SILKWORMS & LOST INFORMATION💻
Daiō-in's head, Ishiko Shōkyū (石河正久), has brought the temple great publicity in recent years.
Renowned worldwide for his research into sericulture, Ishiko bred a new type of silkworm that create peanut shaped cocoons with very flat thread.
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The artist Shibata Zeshin (柴田是真 1807-91) is known as "Japan's Greatest Lacquerer", though he has also been criticized as too modern, too Western and too conservative.
Daiō-in is best known for its 72 fusuma paintings (no photos allowed), created by Shibata on a lengthy stay in 1832.
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The artist Shibata Zeshin (柴田是真 1807-91) is known as "Japan's Greatest Lacquerer", though he has also been criticized as too modern, too Western and too conservative.
Daiō-in is best known for its 72 fusuma paintings (no photos allowed), created by Shibata on a lengthy stay in 1832.
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The artist Shibata Zeshin (柴田是真 1807-91) is known as "Japan's Greatest Lacquerer", though he has also been criticized as too modern, too Western and too conservative.
Daiō-in is best known for its 72 fusuma paintings (no photos allowed), created by Shibata on a lengthy stay in 1832.
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The artist Shibata Zeshin (柴田是真 1807-91) is known as "Japan's Greatest Lacquerer", though he has also been criticized as too modern, too Western and too conservative.
Daiō-in is best known for its 72 fusuma paintings (no photos allowed), created by Shibata on a lengthy stay in 1832.
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The artist Shibata Zeshin (柴田是真 1807-91) is known as "Japan's Greatest Lacquerer", though he has also been criticized as too modern, too Western and too conservative.
Daiō-in is best known for its 72 fusuma paintings (no photos allowed), created by Shibata on a lengthy stay in 1832.
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🖥️THE TEMPLE OF LOST INFORMATION😩
Daiō-in (大雄院), a sub-temple of Myōshin-ji (妙心寺), was founded by Ishiko Mitsutada (石河光忠) in 1603 in memory of his father Mitsumoto (光元).
To construct the temple the residence of the Ishiko family at Fushimi Castle was dismantled.
The "Daiō-in Fusuma Project" (襖絵プロジェクト完成記念 特別拝観) recreated a series of 'Hana-no-maru' (花の丸) paintings at the temple. These paintings were based on designs created by Shibata Zeshin for the imperial palace.
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Barely 2 months apart...🌨️🌞🌸
#Taizoin #退蔵院 #Kyoto #京都 #shadrezakura #枝垂れ桜 #Myoshinji #妙心寺 #sakura #cherryblossoms
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The garden is divided into two parts: the 'Garden of Yin' (陰の庭 'In-no-niwa') and the 'Garden of Yang' (陽の庭 'Yō-no-niwa'). Together they represent Buddhism uniting the dual aspects of the universe.
The gardens feature only sand, rocks, moss and between them the weeping cherry.#Taizoin #zen #Myoshinji #sakura #weepingcherry #cherrytree #桜
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Taizō-in, a 15 minute walk from our Garden Teahouse, has 3 famed gardens:
☯️ Inyō-no-niwa (陰陽の庭 'Garden of Yin and Yang').
🪨Motonobu-no-niwa (元信の庭 'Garden of Kanō Motonobu').
🌸Yokō-en (余香苑 'Garden of Lingering Fragrance' - created by the famed landscaper Nakane Kinsaku 中根金作). -
☯️THE CATFISH'S BLOSSOMS🌸
The small temple of Taizō-in (退蔵院) has a steady stream of visitors throughout the year, but for a few weeks in spring the crowds press thick against one another in the cramped grounds, all come to gape at a single tree...a 50 year old weeping cherry.
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #cherryblossoms #桜 #Taizoin #退蔵院 #Myoshinji #妙心寺
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Lined up along the length of the temple veranda were thousands of tiny pieces of sliced daikon radishes, drying in the cold winter air😮
Despite the recent rain and snow, winter in Kyōto is a bone-chillingly dry affair.
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For most communities the New Year began with the first full moon of the first month.
It was customary to eat 'azuki-gayu' (小豆粥), a rice gruel mixed with red adzuki beans, for health and to exorcise evil spiritsRed was considered a protective colour, especially against disease.
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🌾LITTLE NEW YEAR🙏
Before the New Year celebrations wrap up, there is one more observance to be made on January 15th.
Nao-san visited Tōrin-in to celebrate 'Koshōgatsu' (小正月 'Little New Year'), a once-popular ritual in rural areas, where people would pray for good harvests.
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🌸🌻FOUR SEASONS IN ONE DAY🍁⛄️
Taizō-in (退蔵院) is the oldest of Myōshin-ji’s sub-temples, known for its beautiful gardens and a famous painting of a smug little catfish.
The temple was founded by the Echizen lord Hatano Shigemichi (波多野重通) some time between 1395 and 1404.]As the temple is only a short stroll away from the teahouse, Nao-san and I are regular visitors.
No matter the time of year, there is always something new to enjoy🥰