Jizo-in: Kyoto
Jizo-in is a Buddhist temple in Arashiyama, a residential district in the west of Kyoto. There is a small gate and then bamboo groves either side of a path that leads up to a small temple. Beyond that is a small house where visitors can sit and look out over the open side to a…
Eikan-Do Temple: Kyoto
The Eikan-do temple (pronounced EEK-AN-DOUGH) is in Kyoto. It is a complex of traditional wooden buildings with little bridges connect them. Rather than describe it, let these photographs do the talking. The skill is in making nature seem to be twisting this way and that. You can imagine the way the wind and weather causes…
Koishikawa Korakuen: Tokyo
Koishikawa Korakuen is a formal garden in Tokyo. The Mito family of the Tokugawa clan built it in the early 1600s. Today, high-rise buildings surround it close by. And to one side is the white dome of the Tokyo Indoor Baseball Stadium rising like the top of a flying saucer over the garden. The visitors…