Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Byodo-in Temple
So today I got to do something that I wanted to do soooo bad. Last time I was here my husband was terrified of getting lost so he wouldn't go to the Byodo-in Temple. I have this crazy fascination with all things Japanese. It's hard to explain but there are certain movies I love that are set in Japan and it's so beautiful but beneath the surface there is such ugliness. I guess that happens everywhere but this is different for me. I'm glad now that we saw it on THIS trip and not the last because it meant more. The pictures I saw of it didn't even come close to the actual beauty and neither did the ones we took. And the feeling is indescribable, the reverence. Anyway here are a few pictures, but we took a million. Also just in case you didn't know or didn't remember, I don't post pictures of my kids online. There are pictures of the whole family, but I don't want their info online at all.
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The US doesn't make war on Shinto. My family was stationed in Nippon from 60-62. Iwakuni, where they flew the U2's and where Oswald had been stationed in 58-59. I well remember a beautiful postage stamp of a country where everything smelled very, very fishy except in the Spring when it all smelled like cherry blossoms and fish. I remember went to Nagasaki once and prayed for peace and deliverance from the nuclear terror.
Flowers float by the USS Arizona, by the hundreds, as Japanese people seem to need to make peace..
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