Daitokuji, plums and more

3 February 2024
On Saturday morning we headed back to Kitano Tenmangu shrine to explore their plum grove which opened to the public on Feb 1.  It was more extensive than we had realized!  After lunch we went to Daitokuji, which includes a whole bunch of sub-temples, several of which had their gardens open to the public.  We explored 5 of them before calling it a day...

Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove
Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove
Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove
Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	oranges	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove
Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	KitanoKotano Tenmangu plum grove
Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove
Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kotano Tenmangu plum Kitano	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove
Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove
Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove	camellia	camellia	Kitano Tenmangu plum grove
hillside	bamboo	plums, maples, kerria japonica	crow checking out the photographer	crows in streambed
bridge	Kitano Tenmangu	bridge	Kitano Tenmangu	plum blossoms
Kitano Tenmangu	Kitano Tenmangu		plum blossoms	Kitano Tenmangu
beans for Setsubun	back of Kitano Tenmangu			plum blossoms
plum blossoms	bee	sacred cow	flowers from previous weekend	flowers from previous weekend
	roots at Daitokuji	rock at Oubai-in	lantern at Oubai-in	rock at Oubai-in
do not enter	bridge between buildings at Oubai-in	under the bridge	shadows	Jikicho-tei tea house and lantern at Oubai-in
Jikicho-tei garden at Oubai-in	lantern	Jikicho-tei garden at Oubai-in	garden at Oubai-in	training starts earliy
lantern in Jikicho-tei garden at Oubai-in	gourd-shaped pond in Jikicho-tei garden at Oubai-in	garden at Oubai-in	garden at Oubai-in	Hatou-tei garden at Oubai-in
painted screen at Oubai-in	well	rock garden	kitchen at Oubai-in	small altar piece
bell with a long hammer	framed...	Sabutsu-tei garden at Oubai-in	painted doors	architecture at Oubai-in
	wavy	Mt. Fuji		camellia
ripples	lantern!	garden at Oubai-in	privacy fence at Oubai-in	buds
ikebana in Ryogen-in	Stone garden of A-un's (inhale-exhale) pedestal at Ryogen-in	Totekiko at Ryogen-in - said to be the smallest stone garden in Japan	painted doors	Ishidan rock garden at Ryogen-in
Ishidan rock garden at Ryogen-in	Ishidan rock garden at Ryogen-in - Tortoise Island	Dragon screen at Ryogen-in	wooden bell at Ryogen-in	painted doors at at Ryogen-in
sitting area	camellia	folding screen at Ryogen-in	Ryogintei garden at Ryogen-in	Totekiko garde at Ryogen-in
Totekiko garde at Ryogen-in	gate to Tokuzenji	in entrance to Kohrin-in	garden at Kohrin-in	garden at Kohrin-in
painted doors at Kohrin-in	garden at Kohrin-in	ABSOLUTELY KEEP OUT!	garden at Kohrin-in	garden at Kohrin-in
garden at Kohrin-in	garden at Kohrin-in	bamboo screen at Kohrin-in	shadows at Kohrin-in	stone Jizo
garden at Kohrin-in	old and new bibs...	side of Butsuden		80 year old 5-needle pine bonsai at Hoshun-in Bonsai Garden
80 year old Hibai (Japanese apricot) bonsai	150 year old wild plum bonsai	bonsai juniper forests	bonsai juniper growing on rocks	Japanese cypress bonsai forest
Hoshun-in Bonsai Garden	100 year old wild plum bonsai	60 year old Kantsubaki bonsai (a camellia-like plant from China)	350 year old juniper bonsai	80 year old juniper bonsai
500 year old Japanese yew bonsai with 250 year old whilte pine in background	beyond the wall...	200 year old Japanese black pine bonsai	200 year old Japanese white pine bonsai	150 year old Chinese quince
35 year old white camellia bonsai	250 year old juniper bonsai	200 year old Trident maple	120 year old Japanese cypress foret bonsai
150 year old black pine bonsai	70 year old Kantsubaki bonsai (a camellia-like plant from China)	Creative juniper bonsai with stone "misty phantom peak"	Hoshun-in Bonsai Garden	Hoshun-in Bonsai Garden
100 year old Japanese pricot	Hoshun-in Bonsai Garden	Zen meditation hall at Hoshun-in Bonsai Garden		decortive suiseki stone
decortive suiseki stone	decortive suiseki stones	liquor store	reading the menu	reading the menu

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