Nanzen-ji and Biwako Canal

The wallpaper photograph of the autumnal leaves of Nanzen-ji and the Lake Biwa canal is published.
Nanzen-ji is a high temple to the extent that it is in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, and is a Rinzai sect Nanzen-ji group's head temple.

An official name is called TaiheikoukokuNanzenzenji and Nanzen-ji is also the inside of very many Zen temples, or a completely special Zen temple in Kyoto Gozan referred to as being further located in a higher rank. To have opened is made into Emperor Kameyama and founding is made into Daimei-kokusi. In addition, to have been built is set to 1291. Emperor Kameyama who was establishing the cottage in the ground of the Tenryu temple has Zenrin-ji Den also in this place from the first, and that Zenrin-ji Den is accompanied by that history under present Nanzen-ji. Emperor Kameyama who turned into that after abdicated emperor with a Buddhist order is Nanzen-ji of the present [ named / changed this cottage into the temple by having made Musekifumon into founding in 1291, and / it / Ryuanzan-zenrinzenji ]. It is Naninkokusi in which Musekifumon still lingered and having changed Taiheikoukoku-Nanzenzenji and a name inherited Ryuanzan-zenrinzenji after that around 1300. If the admission fee of 500 yen is paid at the Nanzen-ji entrance, in the precincts of a temple, Hojo Garden currently called [Toranokowatasi] which is designated as the national treasure, and which is said for there to be a building of length and the Ogata length almost and for Kobori-Ensyu to have made is located. Moreover, Nanzen-ji Sanmen is located on this side approach, and it is famous here as one of the Kyoto 3 Daimon. In the middle of the approach into which the Lake Biwa canal went from these 3 Daimon, across the approach, it becomes a bridge of the form of a waterway big building, and is flowing in the inner part of [ right-hand ] the assembly hall. Stairs are also attached so that this Lake Biwa canal may be gone up on a waterway big building and it can watch directly. The beginning with the Lake Biwa canal from the first is the canal started by making Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture into a head in 1885 (Meiji 18), hollows the mountain land in Kyoto Higashiyama in a tunnel, and is made. It is said that there was also a role which conveys a ship and goods from Lake Biwa once. The canal which is flowing on the waterway big building of Nanzen-ji before long is a part style of the first canal, and is a part of section from Keage to Matugasaki-Water-purifying institution.

Nanzen-ji Sanmon autumnal leaves	Sanmon and autumnal leaves	The autumnal leaves of the Nanzen-ji this side	National treasure DaiHojyo "Toranokowatasi" garden
National treasure DaiHojyo garden	The passage which continues from Hojyo	The autumnal leaves seen from the passage	Admission fee
The autumnal leaves of the Lake Biwa canal	Lake Biwa canal	The tunnel under the Lake Biwa canal	The way to the Lake Biwa canal