{"id":22054,"date":"2019-09-19T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=22054"},"modified":"2021-03-07T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T02:08:15","slug":"sights-in-kinkaku-ji-temple-of-the-golden-pavilion-in-kyoto-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/22054","title":{"rendered":"Sights in Kinkaku-ji (Temple of the Golden Pavilion) in Ky\u014dto, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kinkaku-ji<\/em> (\u91d1\u95a3\u5bfa, Temple of the Golden Pavilion) in Ky\u014dto, Japan includes much more than the Golden Pavilion itself. The grounds include shrines and gardens, including one very impressive Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora<\/em> ‘Glauca’) that began life as a bonsai and is now an impressive tree sculpted in the shape of a ship. Held up by scaffolding, this 600-year-old tree, called Rikush\u016b-no-matsu<\/em> (\u9678\u821f\u306e\u677e, pine land boat) no longer really evokes the image of a ship, but the observer can still see an upright portion resembling the ship’s mast, and a more horizontal portion resembling the ship’s deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Rikush\u016b-no-matsu<\/a>
Rikush\u016b-no-matsu<\/em> (\u9678\u821f\u306e\u677e) Pine Land Boat – 1
<\/strong>SOURCE: Rikush\u016b-no-matsu<\/em> (\u9678\u821f\u306e\u677e) Pine Land Boat – 1 (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Rikush\u016b-no-matsu<\/a>
Rikush\u016b-no-matsu<\/em> (\u9678\u821f\u306e\u677e) Pine Land Boat – 2
<\/strong>SOURCE: Rikush\u016b-no-matsu<\/em> (\u9678\u821f\u306e\u677e) Pine Land Boat – 2 (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Kinkaku-ji<\/a>
Kinkaku-ji<\/em> Stairs
<\/strong>SOURCE: Kinkaku-ji<\/em> Stairs (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"White
White Snake Pagoda at Kinkaku-ji<\/em>
<\/strong>SOURCE: White Snake Pagoda at Kinkaku-ji<\/em> (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Kinkaku-ji
Kinkaku-ji<\/em> Woods
<\/strong>SOURCE: Kinkaku-ji<\/em> Woods (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Kinkaku-ji<\/a>
Kinkaku-ji<\/em> Shrine
<\/strong>SOURCE: Kinkaku-ji<\/em> Shrine (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Kinkaku-ji<\/a>
Kinkaku-ji<\/em> Spring
<\/strong>SOURCE: Kinkaku-ji<\/em> Spring (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kinkaku-ji (\u91d1\u95a3\u5bfa, Temple of the Golden Pavilion) in Ky\u014dto, Japan includes much more than the Golden Pavilion itself. The grounds include shrines and gardens, including one very impressive Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora ‘Glauca’) that began life as a bonsai … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[440],"class_list":["post-22054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-kyoto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-5JI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22054"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22504,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22054\/revisions\/22504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}