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Tourists in Kyoto

Posted on 12.31.17 8:34AM under Kyoto

The Shinkansen has a brief view of Mt. Fuji on the way to Kyoto.

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It’s like cosplay near Kiyomizu-dera. Busloads of tourists, mostly Asian start unloading from late morning.

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We went to pray for Junko’s mother who passed on December 29, 2005 and is interred at Otani Hombyo. Junko’s grandmother is interred there, too.

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The founder of this sect lived in this cave. This is the entrance.
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And this is how it looks from the top.

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From that cave to the current temple is quite a distance in time and expense. Every person interred is logged in a database. Once uploaded, no one will ever truly die!

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And then it was 2018…
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