Myoshin-ji

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Myoshin-ji Buddha
The first temple that we went to, after getting lost, and going way out of our way, was Myoshin-ji . There was a great garden that also had a dry rock garden. Everything looked very pretty. One great thing was that since we went there relatively early, we were really the only ones in the garden, and having it all to ourselves, we felt that it was almost ours. One surprising thins was that next to a well, where people wash their hands, a frog had taken a rest in the fountain. We felt lucky to have seen it, and it turns out that a day that had started rather unlucky (having gotten lost on the way to our first temple, and not having intended to come here at all), it seemed like it would be a day that would go just fine.

Outside of the garden, in front of the main temples, there was some sort of celebration, or gathering for all of the people involved with the temple, including monks and nuns. It was neat to see all of this going on. I suppose that it takes this many people to keep the large temple grounds functioning.