🌝🌸PEAK PETALS🌸🍡
Nao-san is your guide as we take a wander around Maruyama Park (円山公園) and Gion Shirakawa (祇園白川), neighbourhoods close to our Camellia Flower Teahouse (カメリアフラワー).
Pour a drink, pick a sweet, and get comfortable...let's celebrate the blossoms🙌
From day...
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #円山公園 #MaruyamaPark #sakura #cherryblossoms #桜 #枝垂れ桜
...to night🌝
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #円山公園 #MaruyamaPark #sakura #cherryblossoms #桜 #枝垂れ桜 #夜桜 #nightblossoms
Tatsumi Daimyōjin (辰巳大明神), festooned with sakura.
A mischievous tanuki once delighted in hiding beneath the nearby bridge to scare unsuspecting maiko and geisha as they passed by. He was later enshrined here (to calm his still restless spirit).
Maruyama-kōen's (円山公園) famous 70-year old shidare-zakura (枝垂桜 'weeping cherry') is one of the city's most recognizable trees.
The original tree was 200 years old when it withered in 1947. In 1949 Sano Tōemon (佐野藤右衛門) planted the tree we see today.
Covering 86641m2, Maruyama-kōen (円山公園) is the oldest and most popular of Kyōto’s parks.
Officially opened in 1886, from 1912 Ogawa Jihei (小川治兵衛 d.1933) landscaped the park into a pond and stroll garden (池泉回遊式庭園) over 3 years.
que sera sera...
my love is Gion
where when I sleep
below my pillow
water flows
かにかくに
祇園はこひし
寝るときも
枕の下を
水のながるる
-Yoshii Isamu (吉井勇 1886-1960).
Trans. Ad Blankestijn.
#京都 #Japan #祇園白川 #GionShirakawa #sakura #cherryblossoms #桜 #夜桜 #lightup
Camellia Tea Ceremony