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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. -
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 snow is mostly gone now, but this was my walk home the other evening🥶🥰
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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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🌾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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🕯️📿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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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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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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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🥰
