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“Finally they were ready to place the flowers in the flower holders.
‘The flowers make such a difference,’ Yomogida said. ‘First you get the stones all glistening with water, then you bring in the fresh flowers, and sudenly it’s all bright and cheerful.’
‘It’s pretty.’
They stood side by side looking at the grave.
‘I always like to look at it when it’s like this.'”
–Junzo Shono in Still Life and Other Stories (p. 178)
In the Arashiyama area of Kyoto we rented bikes and road mostly north into the Sagano area. The last line of homes before running into the mountains (just east of Adashino-Nenbutsu-ji (化野念仏寺)) consisted of some fine ones with a thatch roof. Farming was still going on in the surrounding neighborhood. That some properties also included cherry trees in full bloom put a smile on my face.
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The bell under the thatched roof next to Sounji in Hakone is said to have been used by the famous daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi when he attacked Odawara.
This is the corner of the outside of the grounds of Higashi Honganji (東本願寺) in Kyoto along with a pine tree (松) early in the morning before the sun has been able to break through the clouds.
I took this photograph from a boat on Lake Ashi near Hakone. No cropping has been done to the image, but I did have my camera on 12X optical zoom. The sky was nice and clear (other than the few clouds shrouding the top of Fuji) as it had rained during the night before.