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so i spent like 5-6 hours on livejournal friday night, going to bed around 3:30, and decided i'd been on it enough for the weekend - so here's part 2 of the japan pictures if anyone's curious - there will be 4 sets of pictures altogether...sorry if the images are too bright, as they look different on this pc that i'm currently using...
here are some pictures taken in arashiyama, a secluded area that has become part of greater kyoto...
while walking along the main street, i saw these little blocks of monk figures & thought it too cute to ignore...
i didn't really have a great picture to showcase the bamboo forests that arashiyama is known for, something that really gives you the scope of it all, but here's a shot of it behind a shrine that we visited...
and here's a moss garden at the same shrine - moss gardens are incredibly detailed, and if you visit a number of shrines or temples you'll probably encounter a yardsman meticulously cleaning the grounds as they do daily...
this is a view taken from the grounds of okochi sanso, the private residence of a famous old japanese samurai actor - beautiful views all around, with me liking this one because i like that secluded house off in the distance...
this is tenryuji, a zen temple complex in arashiyama - in my diaries, i mentioned that it started raining on us briefly but then the glorious sun came out to conclude our day - this is a picture that slightly conveys the intense sunlight highlighting the variegated hues of all things...
another view of the same, this one showing the little pond and once again showcasing that natural beauty of the setting that the zen monks aimed for...
usually you're not allowed to take pictures inside the temples, but there weren't any signs telling you not to do it in tenryuji, so i took advantage of it...obviously these are just figures, but it gives you a glimpse of how things might have looked in centuries past...
another view inside the same room, showing the screens that are associated with the kano school of art which adorns most kyoto interiors designed between the 14th-16th centuries...
here are some pictures taken in arashiyama, a secluded area that has become part of greater kyoto...
while walking along the main street, i saw these little blocks of monk figures & thought it too cute to ignore...
i didn't really have a great picture to showcase the bamboo forests that arashiyama is known for, something that really gives you the scope of it all, but here's a shot of it behind a shrine that we visited...
and here's a moss garden at the same shrine - moss gardens are incredibly detailed, and if you visit a number of shrines or temples you'll probably encounter a yardsman meticulously cleaning the grounds as they do daily...
this is a view taken from the grounds of okochi sanso, the private residence of a famous old japanese samurai actor - beautiful views all around, with me liking this one because i like that secluded house off in the distance...
this is tenryuji, a zen temple complex in arashiyama - in my diaries, i mentioned that it started raining on us briefly but then the glorious sun came out to conclude our day - this is a picture that slightly conveys the intense sunlight highlighting the variegated hues of all things...
another view of the same, this one showing the little pond and once again showcasing that natural beauty of the setting that the zen monks aimed for...
usually you're not allowed to take pictures inside the temples, but there weren't any signs telling you not to do it in tenryuji, so i took advantage of it...obviously these are just figures, but it gives you a glimpse of how things might have looked in centuries past...
another view inside the same room, showing the screens that are associated with the kano school of art which adorns most kyoto interiors designed between the 14th-16th centuries...