Tsuwano town people have been preserved the traditional horseback archery for more than 400 years. The Load of Tsuwano brought the Yabusame(Horseback archery) to his land from the capital Kamakura.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Washibara Tenmangu Shrine in Tsuwano
Washibara Hachimangu was established in Kamakura period(1185-1333) . It is located in the South-West of the Tsuwano mountain castle and protects that castle.It holds the horseback archery field, only one archery field which has been preserved the original style since Kamakura period.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Kanetani jouzan sakura April 2008
580 years ago, a young cherry tree was planted beside a mountain castle.
Long time later, only the tree is still alive on this hill top.
Drooping Cherryblossom in Ikoji temple
Sesshu Toyo, the founder of ink-painting in Japan, designed this garden about 450 years ago.
He was also the main priest of Ikoji temple (Rinzai sect), he tried to discribe the Buddhist pure land in this zen garden. You can practice Zen at this temple.
I took this video in the late March, 2008.
Ohira-Sakura
This big Sakura tree is very old....and she is almost dying...
Her flowers are 1/3 of before and she will have a surgery this year.
I hope she will be better sooner. I want to see full of Sakura flowers on her branches.
Drooping Cherry-blossom at Manyouji temple
March 29th, 2009
We went to see some beautiful Sakura (Cherry-blossom) trees in my town.
Fortunately there is a ceremony at temple and the priest came out to ring the bell....
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