Ueyakato Landscape gardener Shigeyoshi Takemura gave a guided tour for a Mai Mai Kyoto sponsored event.
2021/06/12｜Events
Ueyakato Landscape gardener Shigeyoshi Takemura gave a guided tour for a Mai Mai Kyoto sponsored event.
After introducing the Nanzen-ji Temple grounds’ gigantic Sakuma lantern and stones with memorials, inscriptions, and famous wedge marks etched onto them, Takemura then took participants up to the Nanzen-ji sub-temple “Oku-no-In,” where he had them look down at Buddhist statues carved onto a natural cliff in Kyoto’s Komagatake area. Then, after introducing the stones of the temple’s famous Hojo Garden, he also showed moss in the process of being replaced.
The event became an opportunity to share, through the eyes of a gardener with a love for stone objects, the deep allure that stones have as one of the constituent elements in Japanese gardens.
Nanzen-ji Temple
Maimai Kyoto
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After introducing the Nanzen-ji Temple grounds’ gigantic Sakuma lantern and stones with memorials, inscriptions, and famous wedge marks etched onto them, Takemura then took participants up to the Nanzen-ji sub-temple “Oku-no-In,” where he had them look down at Buddhist statues carved onto a natural cliff in Kyoto’s Komagatake area. Then, after introducing the stones of the temple’s famous Hojo Garden, he also showed moss in the process of being replaced.
The event became an opportunity to share, through the eyes of a gardener with a love for stone objects, the deep allure that stones have as one of the constituent elements in Japanese gardens.
Nanzen-ji Temple
Maimai Kyoto
Maimai Kyoto Facebook