This morning, I walked over the beach to our neighborhood temple, the Komyoji temple. This temple was build in 1240 and transferred to the present location in 1243 and renamed Komyoji. The temple was sponsered by the fourth generation regency of Hojo Tsunetoki, who was Shikken, o ... Continue Reading
Last year, I went to this national historic site: the Meigetsu-in. This temple is especially known because of the Hydrangea flowers. But then I was too late and they had already trimmed all the flowers. Now I was here in Kamakura and it is an overwhelming sea of Hydrangeas: so b ... Continue Reading
Last Saturday, we went to the Zojoji temple in Tokyo to watch the Noh theater. This is the Main Gate “Sangedatsumon”. It is majestic and magnificent and remains the only architectural reminder of the early days of the Edo Period, 17-18-19th century, when the original ... Continue Reading
One morning, we bought a “bento box” lunch and drove to the Saimyoji temple, way up a hill. Hank, Lee, Jim and Craig. Saimyoji Temple, also known Tokka-san Fumin-in, is a temple of the Busan Shingon School. Its main revered figure is the Eleven-Faced Kanon Bosatsu w ... Continue Reading
This will be my last blog before I leave for Singapore in an hour for 4 days and then to Holland for 3 weeks to visit family and celebrate some special birthdays. The Hokoku-ji Temple was founded by the Priest Butsujo Zenshi who studied under the renowned Buddhist Priest Musako ... Continue Reading
Beautiful peonies in the garden of the Mausoleum of the Engakuji Temple. Continue Reading
The Engaku-ji temple is one of the five main Rinzai Zen temples in Kamakura and was founded by the great Hojo regent Tokimune, an ardent believer in Zen Buddhism. He is renowned for his autocratic methods of dealing with the envoys of Kublai Khan. Tokimone turned the Mongolian i ... Continue Reading
Before I write about my visit to the Engaku-ji temple, I tell you a little bit of Kamakura’s history. The name Kamakura originates from the next theory. Fujiwara no Kamatari, the celebrated soldier and statesman of the seventh century, while on a pilgrimage to a distant shr ... Continue Reading
On Saturday, April the 15th, Johan and Joko visited us. It was quite a nice day, but a cold wind was blowing. We had a nice stroll through Kamakura and Adriaan is intrigued by the many beautiful houses and gates. We walked to the Zeni-arai Benten, coin-washing cavern, that has ... Continue Reading
