I would like to introduce the beautiful Autumn color leaves in Kyoto Enkoji temple where I visited recently.
Enkoji temple is located in the north side of Kyoto named Ichijyodani and Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism related with Ieyasu Tokugawa who was the Shogunate of Edo period.
Ieyasu established the school for any kinds of people who wanted to learn culture, paintings and so-on and the school was transferred to current area in 1667. The open mind school policy had led the expansion of Japanese culture.
You can appreciate beautiful autumn color leaves on the path to the gate.
After entering the gate, you can find the dry landscape garden named “Honryutei”.
This garden was built in 2013 and consist of white sands which represent cloud sea with whirling current or flow and rock arrangement which represent dragon climbing up to heaven.
The stone pillar by cut roughly on the west side of this garden represent lightning.
After walking through a center gate, you can see the garden named “Jyugyuno-niwa” which consists of beautiful moss, autumn color leaves and fallen leaves. The garden was created in Edo period as a type of Japanese garden with a pond in the center by borrowing mountains as background.
Jyugyunoniwa garden seen from the room in the temple is called flame garden.
The pond in the garden named Sairyuuike is said to be the oldest pond in the north of Kyoto area.
The combination between autumn color leaves and moss represent the deep landscape of Zen Buddhism.
In the end of autumn leaves season, you can appreciate beautiful scattered autumn leaves combined with moss in the garden.
Also, you can find bamboo forests there.
There are lots of precious art objects stocked such as Chikurinzubyobu written by Oukyo-Maruyama in this temple.
If you become interested in visiting these Kyoto tour spots, please contact me. I can support you and I recommend Autumn color leaves tour in Kyoto.
By Kashima
