[Date and Time] Saturday, December 4, at 11:00~16:40
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Hasedera Temple, and Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha)
[Visitors] 9 participants from 5 countries, with 5 from Vietnam, and 1 each from Laos, the Philippines, Chile, and Mexico
[Attendants] 15 KSGG members and 2 observers
The number of participants we had this time was the smallest of this year. As the weather was fine from the morning, we could see very beautiful Mt. Fuji, whose top was covered with snow, after a long time on our way from Fujisawa to Kamakura by Enoden. Everyone was overjoyed at it and took pictures of it.
In Kamakura, I showed the visitors Dr. Langdon Warner Monument by the clock tower. I explained to them that Dr. Warner was a great American Oriental art scholar, and expert in Japanese art, and that he desperately asked the U.S. authorities not to bomb three ancient cities of Japan--Kyoto, Nara, and Kamakura--during World War II to protect the heritage of those cities. Some of them felt moved to hear that, saying, “He was really a great man.”
The red and yellow leaves were at their best at Hasedera Temple and Kotokuin Temple, especially, the Great Buddha there looking more splendid than ever due to the shades of those leaves. How wonderful our tour was just in the season of red and yellow leaves!
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Hasedera Temple, and Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha)
[Visitors] 9 participants from 5 countries, with 5 from Vietnam, and 1 each from Laos, the Philippines, Chile, and Mexico
[Attendants] 15 KSGG members and 2 observers
The number of participants we had this time was the smallest of this year. As the weather was fine from the morning, we could see very beautiful Mt. Fuji, whose top was covered with snow, after a long time on our way from Fujisawa to Kamakura by Enoden. Everyone was overjoyed at it and took pictures of it.
In Kamakura, I showed the visitors Dr. Langdon Warner Monument by the clock tower. I explained to them that Dr. Warner was a great American Oriental art scholar, and expert in Japanese art, and that he desperately asked the U.S. authorities not to bomb three ancient cities of Japan--Kyoto, Nara, and Kamakura--during World War II to protect the heritage of those cities. Some of them felt moved to hear that, saying, “He was really a great man.”
The red and yellow leaves were at their best at Hasedera Temple and Kotokuin Temple, especially, the Great Buddha there looking more splendid than ever due to the shades of those leaves. How wonderful our tour was just in the season of red and yellow leaves!