Kyoto
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Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital and modern-day center of tourism and traditional culture, is one of the world's most beautiful and historic cities. Founded nearly 1,300 years ago and undamaged by the war, Kyoto today is the home of over 1,600 Buddhist temples, 400 Shinto shrines, countless national treasures and 17 World Heritage sites, including the famed Golden Pavilion, Nijo Castle and Kiyomizu Temple. This book presents 29 easy–to–follow walking tours through Kyoto's history, its many unique districts and scenic areas full of charm and character. You'll discover not only the most renowned sites, such as the Silver Pavilion, the rock garden at Ryoan–ji Temple and the garden of the Heian Shrine, but also little–known areas off the beaten track.Much more than a guidebook, this volume tells the historical and cultural story of Kyoto's great monuments. The colorful tales, fascinating facts, larger–than–life characters and grand events that shaped the city and Japan at large will enthrall every reader. This updated and greatly expanded guide features over 100 color photos, full–color maps that trace each route and detailed diagrams of many individual sites.
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JOHN H. MARTIN AND PHYLLIS G. MARTIN
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The Superior’s small garden on the edge of the Yuya-dani Valley seems much larger than when it is viewed from the veranda and rooms of the Joju-in’s north-facing shoin (main room). This seeming spaciousness is derived from the device of “borrowed scenery” whereby the plantings in the garden seem to merge with the neighboring hillside as though all in view were part of the garden itself. The garden is created around a pond which has two islands in its midst. A large stone in the pond, the Eboshi-ishi (Eboshi Stone), is so-called from its resemblance to the formal hat (eboshi) worn by the nobility in the Heian period (798–1200); the angle of the stone suggests the head of a nobleman bowed in prayer. A water basin whose shape resembles the long sleeves of a young girl’s kimono is called the Furisode or sleeve basin. This stone was donated to the temple by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 1590s. Noted as well are some of the garden’s stone lanterns, particularly the one called kagero (Dragonfly) on the larger island.
DAIKU-DO Returning from the Joju-in toward the entrance to the temple, a series of 500 small stone Buddha images surrounded by ferns on a hillside are passed, the images having been placed about an 11-headed Kannon. Further toward the western end of the grounds is the Dai Kodo, the Great Lecture Hall, built in 1978 on the 1,200th anniversary of the founding of the temple. The Taho Kaku (Tower of Treasures) of the Dai Kodo has a wing on either side, and the walls of the base of the tower hold a Buddha’s footprint 13 feet (3.4 m) long while the walls surrounding the footprint have 4,076 images of the four major Buddhas. The 79 foot (24 m) walls about the area have an image of these four Buddhas inscribed on them: Taho Nyorai on the north wall, Shaka Nyorai on the south wall, Yakushi Nyorai on the east wall and Amida Nyorai on the west wall. The upper hall of the tower contains some of the ashes of the historic Buddha.
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