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'Sange' (散華) is a ritual offering of flowers. Early each morning at Hōnen-in 25 flowers (commonly camellia) are dedicated to a statue of Amida carved by Genshin (源信 942-1017).
The flowers represent the 25 bodhisattva who help Amida take the souls of the dead to paradise.

#Honenin #PhilosophersPath

💔🙏AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER👑🗡️

Banbukyō-ji (萬無教寺 aka Manmukyō-ji) sits on the Philosopher's Path beneath Zenki-san (善気山).

Thanks to its links to Hōnen, it is better known as Hōnen-in (法然院), and because of the many camellia that grow here it's nicknamed Tsubaki-no-dera (椿の寺).

#Honenin #PhilosophersPath

Towards the middle of April parts of the canal beside the Philosopher's Path (哲学の道) become a river of petals.
The phrases 'hana-no-ukibashi' (花の浮橋 'floating bridge of flowers') and 'hanaikada' (花筏 'flower raft') both describe water thick with petals.

#哲学の道 #京都 #Kyoto #PhilosophersPath

👣🗾SCATTERING EARTH🤏⛰️

For 25 years Kurita Kōichi (栗田宏一) has walked the length and breadth of Japan, gathering small samples of soil from each settlement (whether hamlet, village, town or city) he passes through.

At Hōnen-in (法然院) he made a dedication of his life's work.

#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #KuritaKoichi #栗田宏一 #Honenin #法然院 #PhilosophersPath #Higashiyama

👣🗾SCATTERING EARTH🤏⛰️

For 25 years Kurita Kōichi (栗田宏一) has walked the length and breadth of Japan, gathering small samples of soil from each settlement (whether hamlet, village, town or city) he passes through.

At Hōnen-in (法然院) he made a dedication of his life's work.

#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #KuritaKoichi #栗田宏一 #Honenin #法然院 #PhilosophersPath #Higashiyama

👣🗾SCATTERING EARTH🤏⛰️

For 25 years Kurita Kōichi (栗田宏一) has walked the length and breadth of Japan, gathering small samples of soil from each settlement (whether hamlet, village, town or city) he passes through.

At Hōnen-in (法然院) he made a dedication of his life's work.

#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #KuritaKoichi #栗田宏一 #Honenin #法然院 #PhilosophersPath #Higashiyama

👣🗾SCATTERING EARTH🤏⛰️

For 25 years Kurita Kōichi (栗田宏一) has walked the length and breadth of Japan, gathering small samples of soil from each settlement (whether hamlet, village, town or city) he passes through.

At Hōnen-in (法然院) he made a dedication of his life's work.

#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #KuritaKoichi #栗田宏一 #Honenin #法然院 #PhilosophersPath #Higashiyama

👣🗾SCATTERING EARTH🤏⛰️

For 25 years Kurita Kōichi (栗田宏一) has walked the length and breadth of Japan, gathering small samples of soil from each settlement (whether hamlet, village, town or city) he passes through.

At Hōnen-in (法然院) he made a dedication of his life's work.

#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #KuritaKoichi #栗田宏一 #Honenin #法然院 #PhilosophersPath #Higashiyama

👹🍚THE OGRE & THE ONIGIRI👏🍙

Strong gusts put paid to Nao-chan's plans for a soothing tea ceremony beneath the cherry trees along the Philosopher's Path (哲学の道), so she packed her traveling tea kit and headed instead to one of Kyōto's best onigiri eateries for lunch🙌

#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #onigiri #おにぎり #PhilosophersPath #PhilosophersWalk #nodate #野点

👣THE PHILOSOPHER'S BLOSSOMS🌸

The Path of Philosophy runs between Nanzen-ji and Ginkaku-ji.
It came to prominence after the philosophers and Kyōto University professors Nishida Kitarō (西田幾多郎 1870-1945) and Tanabe Hajime (田辺元 1885-1962) used the trail as an exercise route.

#PhilosophersPath #PhilosophersWalk #Kyoto #Japan #sakura #cherryblossoms #桜 #京都 #哲学の道