If you have been wondering why the blog has not been updated often of late, it`s because we spend practically every waking hour walking and visiting temples. Temples, temples, temples. And shrines. Temples and shrines, shrines and temples. Oh, and gardens. Temples, shrines and gardens.
For example, over the last three days we have been to:
Kitano Tenmangu
Kinkaku-ji
Imamiya
Kourin-in and Zuihou-in at Daitokuji
Ginkaku-ji
Eikan-do
Honen-in
Tetsugaku-no-michi
Reikan-ji
Nanzen-in
Nishi Hongwan-ji
Higashi-Hongan-ji
Tofukuji
Fujimi-Inari-Tasisha
And those are just the big ones! There have also been many, many small ones we pass by and duck in to have a look. By now, we have a basic idea of what goes into a small temple, or shrine, and, while they are lovely, there are just so many of them that we are being more selective and focus on those of some significance: size, age, importance, uniqueness.
And then when we get home I upload the thousands of photos, which for some reason inevitably end up being sideways or upside down, which means turning them right ways up, curating them, and naming them, by which time it is long past my bedtime.
So I will have to do this in stages. Bear with.
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