This is the garden I mentioned in the last post. It is the
Hasadera Temple, a temple for
Kannon, the Buddhist God of Mercy.
I can't tell you what a pretty day it was. Just perfect.
These stone lanterns are featured in almost all Japanese gardens.
This is ingenious. They use parasols to shield the peonies from the sun. Clever and pretty!
Wisteria, one of my favorites. It always reminds me of the time Gen and I tried to help our neighbor, Maria, set up a wisteria trellis. We were trying to use copper piping and the pipes just didn't want to fit together.
Every time we got one to connect, another would pop loose. And those wisteria vines are heavy! Hi Maria!
This is the view from the top of the temple. Yep, that's the ocean. We walked down to the beach after we ate lunch. It was too cold for swimming, but there were several people windsurfing. There are a few beach resorts on the other side of the bay. It looks a little like Myrtle Beach.
A bamboo forest and some cool lanterns at the temple.
I'm not sure which god this is, but there were hundreds of little statutes. I think maybe it has something to do with protecting children, because there was a little temple where people left offerings and most of the offerings were kiddie stuff, like toys and candy.
Me with the happy Buddha. The word for "cute" in Japanese is
kawaii. Everyone thought this little guy was
kawaii. This was easily one of our favorite places we've been to in Japan. We wandered around for probably 2 hours. There was also a temple that was carved out into the hollow of a hill. You had to walk in almost bent double. There was a little underground spring and different gods carved in the niches of the cavern.
This is the garden I mentioned in the last post. It is the Hasadera Temple, a temple for Kannon, the Buddhist God of Mercy.
I can't tell you what a pretty day it was. Just perfect.
These stone lanterns are featured in almost all Japanese gardens.
This is ingenious. They use parasols to shield the peonies from the sun. Clever and pretty!
Wisteria, one of my favorites. It always reminds me of the time Gen and I tried to help our neighbor, Maria, set up a wisteria trellis. We were trying to use copper piping and the pipes just didn't want to fit together. Every time we got one to connect, another would pop loose. And those wisteria vines are heavy! Hi Maria!
This is the view from the top of the temple. Yep, that's the ocean. We walked down to the beach after we ate lunch. It was too cold for swimming, but there were several people windsurfing. There are a few beach resorts on the other side of the bay. It looks a little like Myrtle Beach.
A bamboo forest and some cool lanterns at the temple.
I'm not sure which god this is, but there were hundreds of little statutes. I think maybe it has something to do with protecting children, because there was a little temple where people left offerings and most of the offerings were kiddie stuff, like toys and candy.
Me with the happy Buddha. The word for "cute" in Japanese is kawaii. Everyone thought this little guy was kawaii. This was easily one of our favorite places we've been to in Japan. We wandered around for probably 2 hours. There was also a temple that was carved out into the hollow of a hill. You had to walk in almost bent double. There was a little underground spring and different gods carved in the niches of the cavern.
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