Islands in the white ocean / 京都 大徳寺塔頭 興臨院 Daitoku-ji Kohrin-in temple South garden
Location : Daitoku-ji Kohrin-in temple South garden facing Hojo* - Karesansui(dry landscape) Garden
,Kyotocity ,Kyoto prefecture, Japan
京都紫野 大徳寺塔頭 興臨院 方丈南庭( 枯山水）
*Hojo 方丈 : abbot's quarters/abbot's chamber
This garden was designed by master landscape gardener Nakane Kinsaku 中根金作 and laid out elegantly and tastefully with two islands connected by a stone bridge The white sands In front of this picture expresses an ocean .
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Kohrin-in was built as the family temple of Saemonno-suke Hatakeyama.畠山左衛門作義総,Load of Noto prefecture,about AD.1520.The temple took the Buddhist name of the founder.The first priest Shohkei小渓 was one of the most distinguished priests Daitoku-ji school has ever produced.
The superior's quarters shows the Muromachi style 室町様式 and is endowed with simple beauy of the age when the building form of temples was influencing the residential form.
The garden expresses the paradise through of old China.An azalea bush and stones are the symbol of the Elysiam mountain.This garden has"Baidara"tree貝多羅樹. In ancients India, they used leaves of the tree of the same sort when the sacred books were recopied. The word Baidara means "leaves" 貝多羅樹は梵語で木の葉という意味.Moreover, many Chinese arts of Gen era and many important letters of old times are in Kohrin-in.
- Kohrin -in
Islands in the white ocean / 京都 大徳寺塔頭 興臨院 Daitoku-ji Kohrin-in temple South garden
Location : Daitoku-ji Kohrin-in temple South garden facing Hojo* - Karesansui(dry landscape) Garden
,Kyotocity ,Kyoto prefecture, Japan
京都紫野 大徳寺塔頭 興臨院 方丈南庭( 枯山水）
*Hojo 方丈 : abbot's quarters/abbot's chamber
This garden was designed by master landscape gardener Nakane Kinsaku 中根金作 and laid out elegantly and tastefully with two islands connected by a stone bridge The white sands In front of this picture expresses an ocean .
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Kohrin-in was built as the family temple of Saemonno-suke Hatakeyama.畠山左衛門作義総,Load of Noto prefecture,about AD.1520.The temple took the Buddhist name of the founder.The first priest Shohkei小渓 was one of the most distinguished priests Daitoku-ji school has ever produced.
The superior's quarters shows the Muromachi style 室町様式 and is endowed with simple beauy of the age when the building form of temples was influencing the residential form.
The garden expresses the paradise through of old China.An azalea bush and stones are the symbol of the Elysiam mountain.This garden has"Baidara"tree貝多羅樹. In ancients India, they used leaves of the tree of the same sort when the sacred books were recopied. The word Baidara means "leaves" 貝多羅樹は梵語で木の葉という意味.Moreover, many Chinese arts of Gen era and many important letters of old times are in Kohrin-in.
- Kohrin -in