Mountain Meadows Inn Bed & Breakfast garden (Ashford, Washington – September 2022)

Posted on September 30th, 2022 under Other. Tags: buddhist, Nikon NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50 Z50, washington. Comments Off on Buddha

Kamakura Daibutsu (July 2010)

Posted on July 30th, 2022 under Japan. Tags: buddhist, kamakura. Comments Off on 12 years ago…

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I’ve visited Portland at least a couple dozen times over the past 25 years. I thought I had been to the Portland Japanese Garden about 20 years ago. We went for a visit this past weekend, and I realized it was the Seattle Japanese Garden that I went to long ago so this was a first. There was a pretty good downpour just before (and just after) taking this photo (which is a photomerge of 22 photos) so not many people around.

Posted on June 22nd, 2022 under Japan, Other. Tags: buddhist, garden, landscape, NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera, panorama, photomerge, portland japanese garden. Comments Off on Portland Japanese Flat Garden

Tochoji’s Buddharupas (Fukuoka, Japan)

The sign at my feet as I took today’s photo said, in English, “Do Not Enter. Buddhists Only.”, as if the ability to read English automatically makes a person not a Buddhist.

Posted on March 21st, 2021 under Japan. Tags: buddhist, fukuoka, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, temples, Tochoji 東長寺. Comments Off on Tochoji

Nikkō Tōshō-gū pagoda (May 2010)

The original five-story pagoda was donated by a daimyo in 1650, but it was burned down during a fire and was rebuilt in 1818. Each story represents an element: earth, water, fire, wind, and the void.

Posted on February 12th, 2021 under Japan. Tags: buddhist, nikko, pagoda, shinto, toshogu. Comments Off on Toshogu five-story pagoda