Snowy and autumnal views of Sanmon Gate
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Nanzen-Ji 南禅寺
Kyoto, Japan
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To end the "Canal Contraptions" mini-series, here's a brief look at the Keage Incline on the Lake Biwa canal in Kyoto. Located near Nanzen-ji and its famous aqueducts, it's apparently a popular sakura spot, not that I'd know visiting in July...
Boats were loaded onto wagons at one end of the slope, and hauled by an electric engine up or down before being unloaded back into the water at the other end. Thinking about it just now it sounded rather ludicrous to me, but I was picturing long European-style barges, but the boats of Meiji period Japan were probably not that big, as a picture of the surviving wagon shows.
We didn't go down to the incline, it was just something the friends I was travelling with that day brought up between Nanzen-ji and our next destination. Something to go back for...
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Autumn Leaves at Nanzen-ji Temple, Kyoto | Nobuhiro Suhara
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does it taste like nothing
does it poison like nothing
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The Van Pelt -- 'Nanzen Kills a Cat'
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Fukushima Ichirô
Precincts of the Nanzen Temple (Nanzenji keidai)
1970
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Nanzen-ji, or Zuiryusan Nanzen-ji, is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Photography by Ryota,F
@Kyoto_Ryota_F
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南禅院/苔庭 Nanzen-in Temple/Moss Garden
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Walking path at the Tenjuan Garden in Nanzen-ji in Kyoto
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Ripple...A small, moss-covered fountain at a sub-temple of Nanzen-ji in Kyoto. Photo credit: Box of Badgers / Flickr
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