Temples & Shrines
Sorry, not a great temple or religion fan myself. Even acknowledging that the Japanese don't care much about religion
and, also, don't have our revulsion for the
happyswastika since the Nazis made it popular,
I do feel that they are going too far by using it as a symbol for
templeon their maps. But do they care?
For all I know, it may stand for
graveyardanyway - the two go together all over the world.
But you can't get around it: All over the world religion through the ages has been accumulating enormous stocks of great art, kept in marvelous buildings. Financially, they have been doing much better than politicians; even taking into account that those have really separated into an independent con-art a relatively short while ago.
Be all that as it may, it's often well worth your while to have a look at these storehouses of culture. After all, they were built to attract people.
that birdhouse on the left is not a shrine at all - it carries a salt stock for slippery roads
the one next to it is in Geibikei Gorge - shrines and grave memorials are everywhereI must confess this is one garden I didn't care for too much. Messy congestion.
Its deep Zen symbolism beauty is all lost on me, with my jaundiced beholding eyes
(give me a pussy any time)
The three directly below are part of a shameless tourist trap - worse even than Lourdes.
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