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Nursery in the country
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Pruning lesson, Kyoto
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Ema. Heart's desire.
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Cabbages on our walk.
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Small farmstead on our walk
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Ema.
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Nara
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In Nara's Isui-en Garden on a bright winter day, with its borrowed view of part of the roof of the neighboring Todai-ji temple. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isui-en). Taken by Julie.
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Votive tablets called "ema". I am told that these ema ask for healing from "female trouble." The breasts' meaning is clear. The kimono ema are for diseases of "the lower half of the body." We hope that everyone was made well.
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A lady working in her fields
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Julie with Rosie on a farm lane beneath a bamboo forest.
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Bruce chatting with the guide at the Todai-ji, Nara.
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East (I thinkj) pagoda of the Yakushij-ji temple, Nara.
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Hōryū-ji temple, Nara. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-ji)
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Onions?
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The five-storey pagoda, Horyu-ji, Nara, 122 feet high. Three trees, all reaching to heaven.
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Along the way. The pagoda was in shadow. The trees behind were in brilliant sunlight.
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Horyu-ji, Nara. The kondo and the five-storey pagoda next to it, both in the temple's Sai-in area, date from the early 7th c. BCE and are two of the oldest wooden buildings in the world.
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Burial marker
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Peppers for sale on our walk
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Nandina domestica pruned in airy layers--more beautiful than the tightly shorn balls we often see. This photo was a revelation.
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Todai-ji temple, Nara
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My first koi. In all their colors, circling around and around.
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Ryōgen-in garden detail on a winter day. In the Daitoku-ji complex. From 1502.
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Curves and angles. Wood and tile.
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We stumbled onto a Shinto ceremony.
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Cascade of roof lines
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View of my friends' Ikoma neighborhood
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Rice fields after harvest. Neat little fields in the forest.
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Farm vegetable stand.
