6/07/2019

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)


Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)


Early summer has just arrived here and the bright sunlight is shining on this rose garden intensively. These countless rose flowers are silently competing with each other to show their magnificence just like the elegant ladies attending the joyous celebration for welcoming brilliant summer.

The flooding of lights, colors, and fragrances in this garden enchants me utterly and makes me be absorbed in taking photographs for remembering the spellbinding beauties before my eyes.




Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)


Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

Rose garden: Ofuna Botanical Garden (Kamakura)

5/25/2019

Sougenchi-garden in April: Tenryu-ji temple (Kyoto)

Sougenchi-garden in April: Tenryu-ji temple (Kyoto)

Ito-zakura (Prunus pendula Maxim.) :Tenryu-ji temple (Kyoto)

Ito-zakura (Prunus pendula Maxim.) :Tenryu-ji temple (Kyoto)

Fallen petals of sakura: Tenryu-ji temple (Kyoto)

Fallen petals of sakura: Tenryu-ji temple (Kyoto)

Tahoto-pagoda of Horin-ji temple: Arashi-yama (Kyoto) 


Tahoto-pagoda of Horin-ji temple: Arashi-yama (Kyoto) 

Bamboo and Ito-zakura (Prunus pendula Maxim.): Tenryu-ji temple (kyoto)

Bamboo and Ito-zakura (Prunus pendula Maxim.): Tenryu-ji temple (kyoto)

Fresh verdure; Arashi-yama (Kyoto)


Fresh verdure; Arashi-yama (Kyoto)

Ito-zakura (Prunus pendula Maxim.): Tenryu-ji temple (Kyoto)

Ito-zakura (Prunus pendula Maxim.): Tenryu-ji temple (Kyoto)

Fresh verdure; Arashi-yama (Kyoto)

Fresh verdure; Arashi-yama (Kyoto)

Ito-zakura (Prunus pendula Maxim.): Nijo Castle (Kyoto)

Ito-zakura  (Prunus pendula Maxim.): Nijo Castle (Kyoto)

Kara-mon gate: Nijo Castle (Kyoto)

Kara-mon gate: Nijo Castle (Kyoto)

5/03/2019

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)


Mt. Yoshino (Nara Prefecture of Japan) is the most renowned place for the magnificent cherry blossoms in Japan.

Mt. Yoshino is also one of the most important places of mountain worship in Japan, where the ascetic practices of Shugendo (Japanese mountain asceticism-shamanism incorporating Shinto and esoteric Buddhism) have been continuously inherited from the remote past.

Kinpusen-ji temple is located in the center of this sacred mountain area. This old temple is said to have founded by En no Gyoja (a legendary holy man known for his practice of mountain asceticism during the second half of the 7th century).

For over a thousand years, numberless "Yama-zakura" cherry trees have continued to be planted in this area as the sacred trees dedicated to Zao Gongen which is the principal image of Kinpusen-ji temple and the highest object of worship in Shugendo.

In 2004, Mt. Yoshino was designated as a part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range."



Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms and Kinpusen-ji temple; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms and Kinpusen-ji temple; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)


Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms; Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms: Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms: Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms: Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms: Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms: Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms: Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms: Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)

Yama-zakura (Prunus jamasakura) blossoms: Mt. Yoshino (Nara prefecture)