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More Temples and Shrines, including Zen Gardens, those Isakayas, and the Philosopher's Walk; then the Golden Temple
August 30
We pause a moment, while a photo is taken...
Cute as a button...
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An aqueduct, not Roman (lol), we're guessing from the 1800's...
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Off to see the monkeys, but, no such luck, they were elsewhere today...
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A sacred shower (that thin water column that looks like a pole), with a changing room and loaner robes...
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Nanzen-Ji Temple
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Philosopher's Walk
We soon encountered this curious fellow (not the philosopher), who convinced most any strolling tourist to participate with launching his leaf and blossom "boats" into the stream - he showed us how to hold and release them just so...
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Hōnen-in Temple
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Buddha's footprints...
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A "Gingerbread" house
"Lego" workmen.....................a last look over our shoulder at the Philosopher's Walk...
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Higashiyama Bisho-ji Temple with Zen Gardens
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We take this pathway up to get a view from a bit higher over the temple...
We're "templed out" and have reached our "zen limit" today, headin' to a brewery and back to Isakayas No. 1 and 2...
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A big honkin highball and a frozen lemon sour starts off the re-visit at Isakaya No. 2.
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...followed by diy hand-rolled sushi.
Handy instructions for our diy hand-rolled sushi, we did purdy good....and diy roasted chili peppers.
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And then back out and over to Isakaya No. 1 for rolled sushi.
August 31
Here's a mouthful - the name of our Kyoto neighborhood bus stop we used several times...
"Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺, literally "Temple of the Golden Pavilion"), officially named Rokuon-ji (鹿苑寺, lit. 'Deer Garden Temple'), is a Zen Buddhist temple and one of the most popular buildings in Kyoto, attracting many visitors annually. It is designated as a National Special Historic Site, a National Special Landscape and is one of 17 locations making up the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto which are World Heritage Sites.
Kinkaku-ji is ranked No. 85 of the Most Holy Places on Earth by religious leaders, writers and scholars in the Patheos multi-faith religion project Sacred Spaces: The 100 Most Holy Places on Earth."
Tim "swished" his 10-yen piece here - a teen next to us was quite impressed...
Daitoku-ji (大徳寺, the ‘temple of Great Virtue’) is a Buddhist temple, one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. The Daitoku-ji temple complex covers more than 23 hectares (57 acres).
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Daitoku-ji originated as a small monastery founded in 1315 by the monk Shuho Myocho (宗峰妙超, also pronounced Sōhō Myōchō; 1282–1337), who is known by the title Daitō Kokushi ("National Teacher of the Great Lamp") given by Emperor Go-Daigo.
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Section of a tree burl (abnormal growth on a tree's trunk) - they don't have tree rings as it's erratic growth.
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And now what you've been waiting to see - our esteemed lunch location today...
...and around the corner, we catch a street car to our next stop (see next chapter as Kyoto Day 4 continues through the afternoon).
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