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3) Ryōan-ji (竜安寺)🪨🌸
Just across the road from our teahouse (and office) is Japan's most famous zen garden...a riddle written in gravel and rocks.
Intended to focus the mind, over the years many have tried to unravel the garden's meaning. -
Always time for a little frolic.
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #snowyday #snow #Myoshinjin #妙心寺 #Ryoanji #龍安寺 #GardenTeahouse
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"Zen teaches us to to actively focus on one thing at a time..."
"Eating, walking, wringing out a wet rag. Just focus on that. It can be anything. ""So right now, take a moment to focus on eating a piece of candy. This is your entrance into Zen."
"Welcome to your 'Inner Trip'."
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #snowyday #snow #Myoshinjin #妙心寺 #Ryoanji #龍安寺
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Not a bad morning walk to work🙌
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #snowyday #snow #Myoshinjin #妙心寺 #Ryoanji #龍安寺 #GardenTeahouse
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🌨️⛄️SPRING SNOW🍵🌸
There is a saying in Kyōto at this time of year that goes "sankan shion" (三寒四温), "3 days cold, 4 days warm".
I think we may be deep in those 3 days...
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #snowyday #snow #Myoshinjin #妙心寺 #Ryoanji #龍安寺 #GardenTeahouse
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Title: Beautiful Autumn at Ryoan-ji (c.1980s)
Artist: Teruhide Kato
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/10/17/this-years-largest-supermoon-emerges-tonight-heres-what-to-know-about-the-hunters-moon/ #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #Art #Showa #Autumn #Kyoto #RyoanJi #Moon #FullMoon #SuperMoon #HuntersMoon
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14) NOTHING💢
The garden historian Gunter Nitschke wrote: "The garden at Ryōan-ji does not symbolise anything...I consider it to be an abstract composition of 'natural' objects in space, a composition whose function is to incite meditation." -
10) THE DRAGON (龍)🐲
Some say it's possible to trace the outline of a dragon, starting with the rock at the most easterly point.
Follow the curving body through the central garden to the NW group, then on to the SW group, finishing at the tail (the low rock from Shikoku 四国).This may seem like a pretty far out there idea, but the temple's name 'Ryōan-ji' (竜安寺/龍安寺) translates as 'The Temple of the Dragon at Peace' so...
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9) THE TSUKUBAI💦🪙
Some have hinted that the garden might in some way visualize the proverb featured on the temple's famed wash-basin (蹲踞 'tsukubai') beside Zōroku-an (蔵六庵)...
吾 唯 足 知 'what one has is all one needs' or 'I learn only to be contented'.The wash-basin on display at Ryōan-ji is actually a replica. The original, out of sight, was donated by Tokugawa Mitsukuni (徳川光圀 1628-1701) in 1660 and belongs to 'Zōroku-an' teahouse.
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5) CROSSING OF THE TIGER CUBS (虎の子渡し 'Tora-no-ko-watashi')🐅
A mother tiger has to cross a river. She has 3 cubs, but can carry only one at a time.
One cub was born a leopard and if left alone will devour the other cubs.The positioning of the rocks may answer the riddle.
The 'tora-no-ko-watashi' riddle is an odd one, based on the Chinese tale 'Guixin Zashi' (癸辛雑識).
#Ryoanji #龍安寺 #tiger #garden #drylandscapegarden #zen #虎の子渡し
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Ryōan-ji is actually our neighbour, just across the road from Garden Teahouse.
Why not come and have tea in-between all that temple hopping...Nao-san's 'how to find us' videos👣
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https://x.com/camelliakyoto/status/1515877168316043264Online reservation🙇♂️⬇️
https://tea-kyoto.com/garden-general-information#Ryōanji #竜安寺 #Kyoto #CamelliaTeaCeremony #teaceremony #GardenTeahouse #茶道 #matcha #抹茶
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Other tricks are used to bring depth...
🔎the west wall is constructed 7 inches higher nearer the hōjō (方丈) to give the impression of distance
🔎the 2 rocks at the rear of the garden are shallower
🔎even colour is manipulated (closer rocks are reddish, farther rocks blueish)
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Forced perspective is cleverly used to give the garden depth and make it appear larger.
25m east-west and 10m north-south, the space is actually not level. The S.E. corner is 70cm lower than the highest point, the garden gently sloping down from the N.W. (this helps with drainage).
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The 'karesansui' garden is a 248 square metre rectangle of carefully raked gravel and 15 rocks.
Some of the rocks sit on small islands of moss, the only greenery to be seen.The rocks are gathered into 5 groupings (5 / 3 / 3 / 2 / 2)🪨
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🪨THE RIDDLE OF RYŌAN-JI'S GARDEN🤔
Ryōan-ji's (竜安寺) dry landscape garden (枯山水 'karesansui') is by far the most famous zen garden in the world.
It is a 'koan' (公案 a zen riddle without a solution, intended to focus & open the mind) written in gravel, rocks and moss.
#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #Ryoanji #龍安寺 #公案 #zen #善 #枯山水 #karesansui
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Kinukake-no-michi (きぬかけの路), the 'Silk-draped Path', is a 2km stretch of road that joins the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺 The Golden Pavilion), Ryōan-ji (龍安寺) and Ninnai-ji (仁和寺).
As our Garden Teahouse sits on this famous route, let's take a tour👣
#CamelliaTeaCeremony #GardenTeahouse #Kyoto #京都 #龍安寺 #Ryoanji #Kinukake #きぬかけの路
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🌞🎎DRAPED IN SILK🏖️🏔️
Just beside our Camellia Garden Teahouse runs Kinukake-no-michi (きぬかけの路 the 'Silk-draped Path'), a 2km stretch of road that joins the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺 The Golden Pavilion), Ryōan-ji (龍安寺) and Ninnai-ji (仁和寺).
#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #Kinukakenomichi #きぬかけの路 # Kinkakuji #金閣寺 #Ryōanji #龍安寺 #Ninnaiji #仁和寺
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Finishing a #painting I had put aside for a bit, but coming back to it excited. This is just a small section of my version of #Bishamon. One of the symbols is the #mongoose. When I use this coin it's always referring to the tsukubai at #Ryoanji.
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