https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113637515724587760 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🪙THE GOLDEN PAVILION🔥
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, & finally destroys.
-Mishima Yukio (三島由紀夫).
In 1950, almost bald of gold & having survived the Ōnin War, Kinkaku-ji was burnt to the ground by Hayashi Yōken, one of its own novice monks.
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113625915427192887 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 💌KYŌTO'S CASANOVA❤️🔥
Takenaka-jinja (竹中稲荷神社) is a small but beautiful sub-shrine of Yoshida-jinja (吉田神社). Standing on the western summit of Yoshida-yama, the forlorn grounds betray the shrine's vibrant history of dashing poets, civil disorder and butterfly dances.
Most of the shrine records have been lost, but in other works there is mention of a vast, snaking tunnel of shrine gates leading from mountain base to the worship hall.
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113592420353581829 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🍂NENBUTSU FALL🍁
Even the stoniest of hearts cannot help but enjoy autumn in Arashiyama.
#otaginenbutsuji #愛宕念仏寺 #arashiyama #嵐山 #Kyoto #京都 #羅漢 #rakan #nenbutsuji #mtatago #愛宕山 #autumn #紅葉
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113563708706121491 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🎇🏮CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL🏮🎆
Kyōto has many light-up events during the autumn, but Manpuku-ji's is something to behold.
As one might expect from one of the country's few Chinese-style temples, the colourful lanterns are heavily influenced by festivals on the mainland.
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113552499051474931 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🌳THE UPSIDE DOWN GINKGO🔃
Nishi Hongan-ji's (西本願寺) famed 400 year old 'sakasa-ichō' (逆さ銀杏 'upside down ginkgo') is so-named because when the leaves have fallen it looks surprisingly like roots reaching up to the sky.
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113518766484300186 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 👣🤔AUTUMN ALONG THE PHILOSOPHER'S PATH🍁🍂
Fall vibing.
#永観堂 #Eikando #autumn #紅葉 #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #ThePhilosophersPath #哲学の道 #Tetsugakunomichi
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113484318065197812 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🙏THE MUMMY IN THE CAVE🤕
Beyond Ōhara, perched on the forested slopes of Yakisugi-yama (焼杉山), high above Kochidani valley (古知谷) and the old 'Mackerel Highway' (若狭街道), is Amida-ji.
Inside a small cave the temple's mummified founder continues to watch over the faithful.
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113478803057454026 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🍁🙈GOD OF THE RED MOUNTAIN✨💸
The first taste of autumn arrives at Sekizanzen-in (赤山禅院), a temple that guards the city from the unlucky north east direction.
Enshrined here is an obscure god (possibly made up) that is celebrated each month as the patron of money collecting.
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113467607866970157 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🌳PERSIMMONS🐦
the persimmon's astringent-
the crow, too, knows
and passes on
渋柿と烏も知つて通りけり
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1820.
Trans. David Lanoue.
It's at this time of year that we begin to harvest what persimmons the crows, birds and other uninvited guests have graciously left us...😩
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113439533123230327 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🍁FOR THE SALVATION OF WOMEN✨
Until recently women were forbidden from setting foot on holy Mt Hiei, confined to pray from afar.
A statue decided to take matters into its own hands so that the women of Kyōto had somewhere to worship.
Each November 15th this statue is celebrated.
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113399704108550070 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - Nao-san may be ready to haunt your dreams, but at least she'll serve some delicious sweets🙌
Tsuruya Yoshinobu's (鶴屋吉信) Halloween 'pumpkin' (パンプキン) and 'ghost' (ゴースト) are as adorable as they are delicious!
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113399384477709944 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 😈TEAHOUSE TERROR🎃
Come for the tea......stay forever!😱
Happy Halloween! (ハッピーハロウィン)!🎉💀🪦🍬🍭
Don't have nightmares tonight😉
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113393961381429719 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🪵THE THATCHED VILLAGE🛖
vegetables hung to dry
at two houses...
thatch dripping rain
二軒前干菜かけたり草の雨
-Issa (小林一茶), 1803.
Trans. David Lanoue.
About an hour's drive north west of Kyōto, Miyama's (美山) 'Kayabuki-no-sato' (かやぶきの里) is a small village of traditional farmhouses.
#Miyama #美山 #Kayabukinosato #かやぶきの里 #farmhouses #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #kayabuki
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113382669688943912 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 😇👋A MONTH OF NO GODS🧳⛩️
There is a quaint belief that in the 10th month the gods of Japan congregate for a great gathering to discuss matchmaking at Izumo-taisha (出雲大社) in Shimane Prefecture.
Only hard-of-hearing Ebisu and the Sun Goddess miss this annual pilgrimage.
#Japan #IzumoTaisha #Kyoto #京都 #autumn #ShimanePrefecture #Shimane #出雲大社
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113365512309979680 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - Itotatsu (いと達) always puts on a wonderful spread for spooky season. Last year's devilish delights included a monaka 'kuma-san' (クマさん), a white pumpkin (白かぼちゃ), and a spooky kuzuyaki (紫芋と栗の葛焼き - flavoured with murasaki-imo and chestnut🍠💜🌰).
https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113354097975193206 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - Kinmokusei (キンモクセ), in English known as sweet osmanthus, fragrant olive and tea olive, was brought to Japan from China in the Edo period.
The plant was used for both medical and culinary purposes, and also as a natural air freshener.
The flower symbolizes truth and nobility.
#sweetosmanthus #sweetolive #kinmokusei #キンモクセ #autumn #Kyoto #Japan
https://mastodon.art/@antongorlin/113327932216357031 antongorlin@mastodon.art - What I find exciting about Mastodon is that
1. There's no fishy algo
2. When I post something it gets more or less similar attention and I can for real see how is photo perceived
3. Often, the results are opposite of my personal preference.
Anyway, here's another one from Japan. Not a full landscape but an interesting detail shot in my opinion made somewhere in Kyoto.
#landscape #landscapephotography #city #cityphotography #urban #night #japan #kyoto #WindowFriday #photo #photography "art
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https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113246555449104364 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🗺️🤔THE QUEST TO CATCH 'EM ALL🕳️✨
In 2018 Kagoshima was the first prefecture in Japan to have Pokéfuta (ポケふた) installed. Pokémon manhole covers can now be found in 37 prefectures!
I went to Uji to catch the latest 2 to appear in Kyōto.
