Today I will go to Kinkaku-ji Temple on the outskirts of Kyoto. The food in the self-service breakfast shop is casual, cheap and affordable. The egg roll called Yuziyaki is different from the eggs at home, and the delicious meal of grilled fish and barbecue meat is not eaten at once. Ask the waiter to pack it, put it in the lunch box for free and give a monkey skin band, the service is really thoughtful.
The food can't be eaten, but the waiter is beautiful. It's a pity that I didn't capture a good shot, and it was a bit of a false head, and it could only be so.
Buses in Japan are also very interesting, and the whole compartment sinks after arriving at the station to facilitate the boarding and disembarking of passengers. If there is a wheelchair or stroller, there will also be a lifting platform on the ground. After passengers get on the train, the carriage is raised to the driving state as a whole. This little Japan is really not troublesome for the convenience of people.
Kinkaku-ji Temple is officially known as Luyuan Temple, and the incense is abundant and the pilgrims are flocking. The Golden Pavilion is more than 100 feet tall and has three floors: upper, middle and lower. The lower floors are timber and the upper and middle floors are gilt buildings. This golden house with a grass roof is so strange.
This was once the general's mansion where the monk Ikkyu was located.
The golden-roofed phoenix bird is indeed very delicate.
I am engaged in ancient construction, and the landscape in the garden is to walk around and observe the flowers. Hit to the old Nijo shogunate. Nijo Castle, also known as Nijo Gosho, was the shogun's headquarters in Kyoto.
Two castles with large iron gates
The main gate of the shogunate
The main entrance is painted with wood carvings
Ridged beasts and hanging fish
When the Eastern Han Yang continued to be the punctuality of Nanyang, his subordinates gave him raw fish, which he received and hung on the gable, and later someone gave him fish, and he showed the hanging fish to the visitors. Tell him not to give it again in the future, thus putting an end to the gift. Since then, hanging fish has been used to describe the official as clean and honest, refusing to accept bribes.
Later, carved wooden hanging fish were also hung on the mountain flower board of the building to show the innocence and incorruptibility of the government. After this architectural style was transmitted to Japan in the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese did not understand the profound meaning of this hanging fish, so they turned this hanging fish into a ruyi pattern.
The main hall of the shogunate has a magnificent exterior, and the interior of the hall is full of Japanese-style compartments, and the walls are covered with ukiyo-e, which feels like a decorative painting. Interestingly, as soon as you enter the hall, you will hear birdsong as soon as you take a step, but you will not call when you listen to the steps, and you will chirp again and again. It is said that this was specially designed to prevent theft, and the voice pipe is right in the middle of the double floor. Because photography is not allowed indoors. Only secretly photographed the ceiling and withdrew, hurry up and go to the next station.
Interior painted ceiling
Higashi Honganji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, is the main temple of the Otani school of the Pure Land sect of Buddhism. The teachings of the Pure Land sect are relatively simple, and you can just chant the Buddha's trumpet, so there are many converts. The mountain gate of Higashi Honganji Temple is also a two-story building resting on top of the mountain.
Higashi Honganji Sanmon
The huge black and white bucket still has a Tang style.
Wooden railings, staffs and pillars
In this Higashi Hongandai Temple, I finally saw a group of monks and nuns who came to worship. They all have long hair without any shave, and wear local monk clothes without buttons, and in China male monks are called great monks, and female nuns are called second monks. I don't know what Japan is called, so I didn't say hello to them. It is said that Japanese monks and nuns can grow their hair and eat meat, and they are also allowed to marry wives and have children. Buddha Shakyamuni had both children and wives, and Buddhism changed when it spread to China. Tibetan tantra advocates the practice of men and women, but it is unknown whether they can cultivate children.
I'm a layman, so I don't study these either. I'm still interested in ancient buildings from the Tang Dynasty, and tomorrow I'm going to Nara to visit Todaiji Temple, the largest and oldest wooden structure in the world, which is something I've been longing for for a long time.
Han Changkai The third day of the 2019 Lunar New Year