Today, we want to explore two popular elements in Japanese gardens. The picture of the turtle and the crane. For this, we will take the garden of Koichi-in in Kyoto as an example, where we have both elements as a rock setting (island) in one garden. However, these pictures can...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Famous Gardens > Kyoto Area > Nanzen-ji Nanzen-ji（南禅寺） Nanzen-ji is the name of a temple and the surrounding temple complex at the foot of Kyoto’s eastern mountains (Higashi-yama). It was built in the Heian period (794-1185) on the grounds of Tennō Kameyama’s detached palace. The...Continue Reading
Day 2 was a great day for gardens – we visited so many very beautiful ones! It is hard to suppress writing about each one in great detail here… We started with another relatively large temple, Eikando, and specifically its sub-temple Zenrin-ji. This is somewhere we haven’t written about yet, and...Continue Reading
Field trip to Kyoto Autumn 2014 Day 2 Read about Day 1 >>here<< The next day, we wanted to cycle the city and explore the temples via bike. But as I’m an “Ame-on’na”, a woman who attracts rain, I cancelled the bikes in the morning and we went by foot...Continue Reading
