💜🙏WISTERIA🐕💜
in falling blossoms
growling to Amida Buddha...
temple dog
花ちるや称名うなる寺の犬
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1810.
Trans. David Lanoue.
There's been a trellis at Byōdō-in (平等院) for more than 250 years, supporting a huge wisteria (surely one of the city's most photographed).
Having raised an army with Prince Mochihito (以仁王) to overthrow the ruling Taira clan, Yorimasa's forces were crushed at Uji and he fled to nearby Byōdō-in.
Badly injured by an arrow, he spread out his war fan, composed a final poem, and committed seppuku.
Minamoto-no-Yorimasa's death is argued by some to be the earliest record of a samurai committing seppuku in defeat.
Beside Byōdō-in's Kannon-do (観音堂), built around 1230, is a fan-shaped stretch of lawn called 'Ogi-no-shiba' (扇の芝), upon which Yorimasa likely killed himself.
After Michinaga passed away in 1027 the 'Uji Palace' (宇治殿) came into possession of his son Yorimichi (藤原頼通 992–1074).
When Yorimichi turned 60 years old he was inspired to transform the sprawling site into a temple, and made the priest Myōson (明尊 971-1063) first abbot.
✨😇A SLICE OF PARADISE🪷🎶
Byōdō-in's (平等院) Hōō-dō (鳳凰堂 'Phoenix Hall') was completed in 1053.
Once completely surrounded by Aji-ga-ike pond, the stretch of water helped protect the building from fires in 1336 and 1483 that completely destroyed the rest of the temple.
In June this year two more Pokémon manhole covers appeared in Uji, the home of matcha in Japan.
Both are within easy walking distance of the Keihan Uji Station (and not particularly far from the JR Uji Station).
Born at the villa, it seems probable that Murasaki spent most of her life (even when married) at the house.
Standing to the west of the Kamo River, 'Tsutsumi-tei' would have been constructed in the 'palatial style' (寝殿造 'shinden-zukuri') within a sprawling pond garden.
Directly to the south stood Fujiwara-no-Michinaga's magnificent Hōjō-ji (法成寺), similar in design to Byōdō-in.
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