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Photos of Japan 2012
Jens Van Den Bergh

Nikko & Lake Chuzenji 1

Photos from Nikko and the temple blocks and shintoistic schrines.
They are lying more or less together in a big block.
The bridge is called Shinkyo, which means holy bridge, and forms the entrance to the block.
There is between others the buddhist temple Rinnoji, the temple which is in restoration now,
the headquarter of the Tendai sect.

 

 The following photos are coming from the shintoistic Nikko Toshogu, a block in the woods,
dededicated to the first of the Tokugawa shoguns. The family Tokugawa held the power as shogun of Japan from 1603 to 1868.
In the Nikko Toshogu are many buildings. There is for example the building with woodcarvings with apes,
includingr the wellknown not-hearing, not-seeing, be-silent, which is called Shinkyu-Sha , stable of the holy greyl
(because there is somewhere there the sculpture of a hourse).
The buildings with the representations of elephants are called Sanjinko. The author of the woodcarvings was Kano Tanyu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nikko, renovating world heritage in the most thorough of ways

 

 

 

The gate Yomeimon. The birds are part of the Kairo, woodcarving, part of the wall around the central buildings

 

 

 

The gate Yomeimon. The groupes with figures are called Sennin and are deirived from Chinese mythology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taiyu-in Reibyo, the mausoleum for Tokugawa Iemitsu, the thirth Tokugawa shogun

 

Lake Chuzenji & Kegon falls

 

Kegon falls

 

 

 

Lake Chuzenji

 

Lake Chuzenji

 

West Coast of Shikoku

Matsuyama Castle

 

 

 

 

 

around Uwajima

 

Uwajima

 

Uwajima "bull sumo" (ushizumo) arena

 

Ushizumo point system

 

Uwajima Castle

 

At the Ashizuri Temple grounds - 1 of the 88 stops on the Shikoku pilgrimage,
in the footsteps of Koibo Daishi, founder of the Shinagon Buddhist sect
(and whose grave is on Mount Koya)

 

Ashizuri

 

Ashizuri

 

Ashizuri

 

Ashizuri - the turtle rock

 

 

 

Ashizuri is well known mainly because of the cape, the most South point of Shikoku

 

West Coast of Shikoku 3

Hakusan Domon

 

Hakusan Domon

 

In the harbour of Tosashimizu

 

Tatsukushi

 

Tatsukushi coral reefs

 

Tatsukushi

 

Tatsukushi

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