Archive for the 'Temples and Shrines' CategoryPosts about various temples and shrines
This post is a few more shots following on from "Quick Peek from Kyoto’s Aoi Matsuri", about one of Kyoto's main "period costumes" festivals, the Aoi Matsuri festival (葵祭; at Wikipedia). Of course, where you have horses on parade, you have... To be continued...
View full post »
The Aoi Matsuri festival (葵祭; at Wikipedia), one of Kyoto's big three festivals, was held the other day, and I stopped by for the first time in many years to photograph the folks in period (circa 1000AD) costumes. A cursory scan of the initial photos shows that I missed focus on most of the shots [...]
View full post »
Dipping into my archives from last October, I realize that I haven't yet posted much about the Kurama Fire Festival (鞍馬の火祭り) that I briefly mentioned at the time, and a bit in my shooting-with-two-bodies post. One reason that I haven't posted is that the photos are not very good (taken haphazardly handheld while not really [...]
View full post »
It's been a busy few days since I posted "Weeping Cherry at Kyoto’s Ryouanji Temple (龍安寺)". I came down with a cold, my wife performed in a local production of Swan Lake, and I recovered from my cold, in that unfortunate order. No time to even look at the photos from the other day beyond [...]
View full post »
I spent most of the day at the Ryouanji Temple (龍安寺) in northwest Kyoto, which I often visit in the fall for its spectacular autumn scenery. I think today was my first visit during cherry-blossom season. I was tickled to discover that the "weeping cherry" (シダレ桜) at the west end of the property were spectacular, [...]
View full post »
Following up on "Temple Hopping in Kyoto with Katrin Philippar" from the other day, I left off as we entered the Kiyomizu Temple. Photogenic sights abounded, but it was really crowded. The lady in Kimono stood there for the longest time (multiple minutes), waiting for an opportunity for a nice shot for her photographer at [...]
View full post »
In the 80s my folks hosted an exchange student from Germany. We've kept in touch since, and she stopped by Kyoto last weekend on her way to give a talk at a plant-biology conference in Okayama. The pleasant walk along the Kamo river that I posted about yesterday was on my way meet Katrin for [...]
View full post »
This post is just a bunch of extra desktop-background images from the Enkouji Temple (円光寺) in Kyoto last fall, that I didn't have space to fit in "The Gorgeous Enkouji Temple of North-East Kyoto" the other day. Next are a few "reflections of the trees in the pond" shots similar to "Pond" the other day. [...]
View full post »
I made a short visit today to the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine (北野天満宮), famous for its plum blossoms. I'd gone two weeks ago when only a few blossoms had appeared, but now it's pretty much in full bloom. There was the slightest of rain... you didn't need an umbrella for the most part... which kept the [...]
View full post »
In today's post we dip again into the deep archives of my very-photogenic November of last year, where on the 15th of the month Paul Barr and I visited two temples in northeast Kyoto, the Shisendo Temple (producing this post and this post), and then the nearby Enkouji Temple (圓光寺). It was my first visit [...]
View full post »
I heard from a friend today that the plum blossoms at the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine (北野天満宮) in northern Kyoto are at their best, so I thought I'd revisit my went-too-early visit from two weeks ago, last written about here, with more of the same.... blossoms blossoms blossoms. I prefer the white ones over the pink, [...]
View full post »
Going back to round out my posts about my first visit to the Hosen-in Temple (宝泉院) in Kyoto's mountain suburb of Ohara last fall, today's post picks up after parts two and three. The path from the main road is flanked by stalls selling all manner of snacks. These senbei were pretty and, according to [...]
View full post »
I'm not sure what's with the bull near the entrance of the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine (北野天満宮), but people come up to rub its snout.... perhaps for good luck, I suppose. Yesterday's post was about the temple's plum orchard, but there's plenty to see in the free open areas of the shrine. The tree near the [...]
View full post »
As I mentioned in my previous post, the plum is starting to bloom in Kyoto. One of the famous spots for it is the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine (北野天満宮), which has a large orchard that you can visit for 600 yen (about US$7). It's not worth paying to see the orchard yet, though, because the blossoms [...]
View full post »
It's still quite early for plum blossoms, but having apparently been quite confused, I went to the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine (北野天満宮) today expecting them to be in their prime. Most trees were still bare, but there were still ample blossoms to be found here and there. I seem to have bad luck with this temple... [...]
View full post »
Picking up from part 1 and part 2 about my trip to the Housen-in Temple (宝泉院) in the Ohara mountain district of Kyoto last fall, we moved from the temple and its maple/moss garden, to a separate rock garden... The weather alternated between light rain and brilliant sun... the gloominess seen above was suddenly replaced [...]
View full post »
Picking up from "First Visit to Kyoto’s Housen-in Temple" the other day, where I ended with having tea and sweets in the garden-viewing room, here are some more shots of that room and the area. The back of the room had some nice paintings in the alcoves... In the shot above, Paul is facing the [...]
View full post »
Dipping back into my largely-untapped archive from November's many fall-foliage outings, here are some photos from a trip to the Kyoto mountain-suburb of Ohara, where we (Damien Douxchamps, Paul Barr, and I) visited some of the smaller temples surrounding the justly-famous Sanzen-in temple (三千院), which has been on my blog many times since my first [...]
View full post »
Since my main computer (a laptop holding my photos for the last two years) is still in the shop, I'm taking random walks through the 90,000 photos in my desktop-computer's Lightroom catalog, dating through the end of 2010. I'm taking the opportunity to delete a lot of cruft, but occasionally run across shots I want [...]
View full post »
My laptop, where I do all my photo work for the last couple of years, is in the shop, so I'm having to dip back into the old Lightroom catalog on my old desktop machine, where I have photos from the 90s through the end of 2010. I hadn't looked at them in ages, and [...]
View full post » | 
Jeffrey Friedl You are currently browsing the archives for the Temples and Shrines category. Blog Basics Index of Photos
(Not counting recent posts)
(Popular six months ago)
(Most popular posts, ever)
|