Camellia Tea CeremonyThere are one or two good snowy days in Kyōto each year, so when the flakes begin to flurry you have to make the most of it❄️🙌🌨️🧤🥶
Kinukake-no-michi (きぬかけの路), the 'Silk-draped Path', is a 2km stretch of road that joins the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺 The Golden Pavilion), Ryōan-ji (龍安寺) and Ninnai-ji (仁和寺).
As our Garden Teahouse sits on this famous route, let's take a tour👣
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But what does Kinukake-no-michi (きぬかけの路) have to do with draped silk?🤔
Well, the road winds through the foothills of Mt. Kinugasa (衣笠山), known also as Mt. Kinukake (絹笠山).
The mountain is named after an incident involving Emperor Uda (宇多天皇).
Right beside Ninna-ji is the (often overlooked) temple of Renge-ji (蓮華寺), a site that traces it origins to Kūkai, who enshrined a stone image of Fudō Myōō (不動明王) in 806 within a grotto on the north west bank of Hirosawa Pond (広沢池).
