Kamakura
A day trip to tour the beautiful temples of Kamakura, about an hour outside of Tokyo.
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Date: 2008.01.27
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 5 items
(34 items total)
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Engaku-ji
A beautiful mountain top Buddhist temple.
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Date: 2008.01.27
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 9 items
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Ascending the steps
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A lot of the lanterns and statues looked original, meaning roughly 800 years old.
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Ogune, built 1301.
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Trees with little red berries, which even Ellie knew not to eat.
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Pencil-thin engraving in a grave stone.
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Koi pond below the temple.
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Red benches for prayer ceremonies
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Tokei-ji
A temple famous for women's rights. Women in Japan weren't normally allowed to seek divorce. But if they served as nuns in the temple for three years, they were considered divorced.
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Date: 2008.02.02
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 3 items
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Kencho-ji
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Date: 2008.02.02
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 4 items
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The main gate, built 1754.
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I started singing "Ring My Bell" to Ellie as we walked by.
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Skinny Buddha in Kencho-ji
We looked at nearly every gift shop in town for a replica of skinny buddha to buy for Josh. Alas, only a postcard was found.
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Kamakura Misc
Other random things from around town.
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Date: 2008.01.27
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 4 items
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Dancers at Tsuru-ga-oka Hachiman-gu
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Crowds were gathered to celebrate the new year.
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Deeply Happy Jelly
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Kamakura Beer
Actually quite tasty. Twas an ale, which were hard to find in Japan (they love lager).
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Great Buddha and Hase-dera
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Date: 2008.01.27
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 9 items
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Thousands and thousands of plastic Buddha statues surrounding the temple, purchased one at a time from the gift shop.
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Tiny statues inside the Temple's cave.
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Cute Buddha?!
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Ghosts inside Great Buddha
For 20 yen, you can enter the Buddha statue. I've never rubbed the inside of Buddha's belly for good luck.
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The real Buddha didn't have back flaps. And he probably also wasn't 40 feet tall.
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