This was the day I dreaded the most!
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Foliage Season in Kyoto – Day 5
We went to Andrew Wyeth exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum last week. Mr. Wyeth lived his whole life between Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and coastal Maine, where he painted prodigiously, of the landscape and a small cast of people, for almost seven decades. Instead of painting “the object as it is in nature”, his works reflect the “mood of a thing rather than the truth”.
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Foliage Season in Kyoto – Day 4
How long would you wait for a bowl of noodle?
When we got to Ramen Sen No Kaze half an hour before its opening, there were already a dozen people lining up at the door.
Foliage Season in Kyoto – Day 3
I would not have visited the Kyoto Imperial Palace if not for my dad, who on the morning of day 3 insisted that he must visit a royal palace during his time in Japan. So we did.
Foliage Season in Kyoto – Day 2
In Kyoto we stayed at a ryokan. It wasn’t one of those fancy schmancy places, but it does offer breakfast for the additional cost of 2000 yen. I like Japanese breakfast and would never pass an opportunity to try one.
Foliage Season in Kyoto – Day 1
Back in Osaka, I said goodbye to my friend Johanna and went to the Kansai Airport to pick up my parents.
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Shimogamo Shrine, Kyoto
Visiting Shimogamo Shrine on a beautiful February morning
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Kikunoi, Kyoto
Before heading back to the US, my friends and I decided to splurge on a kaiseki dinner at Kikunoi.
Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto
If you’ve been to Kyoto, chances are that you’ve been to Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺). It is one of most visited places in the ancient capital of Japan.
The Golden Pavilion has three levels, each carrying a distinctive architecture style: shinden (11th century aristocracy) on the first level, buke-zukuri (warrior residence) on the second, and Chinese Zen (Buddhist temple) on the third. Continue reading “Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto”
Plum Blossom at Kitano Tenmangu, Kyoto
Kitano Tenmangu (北野天満宮) is a Shinto shrine located in northwest Kyoto. It is built in 947AD to honor Sugawara no Michizane.
An important scholar, poet and politician of the Heian period, Sugawara no Michizane (菅原道眞) read poems at the age of five and wrote Chinese poems at the age of eleven. Continue reading “Plum Blossom at Kitano Tenmangu, Kyoto”
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