kyoto trip 2

Continued from the previous posting, Ryoanji is a zen garden. If you look closely, you will see the roofs become narrower as they converge. This is designed to create an illusion for the eye that the garden does not seem narrow at corners.

This is also a shot at the same zen garden. Taiko told me the chain under the roof gutter is for the raindrops to drip along so that they do not make sounds as they hit the ground to disturb the thinkers of zen. Pretty clever eh?

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October 8th, 2006, sunny

Mariko could not join me and Taiko yesterday, so we went to meet up with her today. A shot of the Kyoto train station. Kyoto train station is connected to several department stores, so it is always busy, always BIG

After we met up with Mariko, we went to another zen garden. Too bad the red maple viewing season does not start until early to mid November, so it was still mostly green. In some local restaurants, you can see people have taken pictures or created paintings of the four seasons of this exact spot where we stand here. Extremely beautiful I must say.

Famous local cuisine-marinated fish in soba noodle soup. yum yum yum!!!