October 07, 2003
Kinkakuji
OK, so I haven't been for a while and my judgement might be clouded, but if you blink you could almost convince yourself this was pretty. Built originally in 1398, it was burned to cinders by a stuttering monk in 1950, who hated himself and his speech impediment so much that he felt compelled to destroy anything beautiful. Yukio Mishima's book Kinkakuji (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) is an excellent literary dramatization of the true story of the monk and the ill-fated temple. Today the tourists throng and the owners no doubt laugh all the way to the bank.
Click on the photo just for a little more detail.
Posted by Joe at October 7, 2003 10:39 PMMy, my, hitting the sights, are we not!
Nothing like visitors to get you out and about visiting long untouched places - will tomorrow's shot be Kiyomizu or Ginkakuji, I wonder?
We cast our net a little further afield today!
Posted by: Joe at October 8, 2003 09:48 PM