Posted on September 20th, 2019 under Japan. Tags: Danjo Garan 壇場伽藍, koyasan 高野山, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Mother Pucker

Six summers ago I sat in the Buddhist temple I spent the night in, ate breakfast, and gazed at this ceiling.

Posted on May 12th, 2019 under Japan. Tags: fudoin, koyasan 高野山, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on 不動院の天井

#japan #koyasan #okunoin #高野山

Posted on April 21st, 2019 under Japan. Tags: buddhist, cemetery, koyasan 高野山, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, okunoin japanese cemetery 奥の院. Comments Off on Holy Sepulchre

#tea #japan #tatami #koyasan #kongobuji

Rooms in Japan are frequently measured by the number of tatami. 4.5-tatami rooms are common and are the norm for tea rooms. 8-tatami rooms are considered large. However, on this day I sat in a 169-tatami room sipping tea by myself.

This room is known as the “New Temple Annex” (新別殿) in Kongobuji. I’m guessing on most days the room has dozens of tourists in it so this photo was a rare opportunity to capture the room vacant.

Besides having one of the largest tea rooms in Japan, Kongobuji also has the largest rock garden.

And if that isn’t enough to get you to Kongobuji the next time you are on Koyasan, you can head over to the Willow Room to see where Toyotomi Hidetsugu, and several of his wakashu (若衆), were ordered to commit suicide.

Posted on January 30th, 2019 under Japan. Tags: Kongobuji 金剛峯寺, koyasan 高野山, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on 169 tatami room

Path lined with stone lanterns (石灯籠) @ Koyasan’s Fudoin

#石灯籠 #道 #koyasan #高野山 #不動院 #fudoin

Posted on November 29th, 2018 under Japan. Tags: fudoin, koyasan 高野山, lanterns, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Throwback Thursday