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So, I went today to see Moriyama for myself. I happened to also know about Ishiyama-dera, which is the place where Murasaki SHIKIBU is said to have written her famous book, The Tale of Genji, the oldest continuously acknowledge novel in the world. Since I am in the midst of a bit of private study on this and related matters, I took the opportunity to visit. I had intended, originally, to finish the day with this excursion, but, as fate would have it, I saw Ishiyama-dera on my way to Moriyama rather than from. I think it worked out better that way, anyway... so here we have some pictures and commentary :
( Pictures and Commentary : Ishiyama-dera )
Anyway, I was so pleasantly impressed with Ishiyama-dera that I bought two metal-cut-outs of Murasaki at work and a charm for "safe returns". I will send one of the bookmark-plates and the charm {one item to each, that is...} to anyone who comments or PMs with their snailmail addresses...
A favorite point about Ishiyama-dera : the wonderful, rich, clean, earthy smells and sounds of flowing water. Just magnificent!
About Moriyama, I'd rather not comment, really, at this time. Except to say I will want a bicycle, that I did see at least three restaurants, and that a lot will depend on my apartment so I really hope that it is quite nice. Lots and lots of staring, again ; but people seem to have a slightly different attitude than they did in Shikoku about it, also, I'm much, much better with it than I was when I first came to this country--of course, I'm much better after living for a year somewhere where I'm not enough of an oddity to be stared at or at least people are cosmopolitan enough to know better than get caught at it. This will probably be the source of some trouble, still, but at least for the time being I think it'll be cope-able. The staring, I mean.
Ishiyama is very near the water--both the lake and the one river which flows out from Lake Biwa. It made quite an impression, really! (I was born in the land of 10,000 lakes, afterall...) One thing I noticed was that there were a lot of people rowing. I've been interested in rowing for a little bit ; perhaps, living in Shiga, the opportunity to partake of this sport will present enough of itself for me to snatch at it.
Overall, I think I will have a more active outdoors life there than I had in Kawanoe, which is fine by me. I also think I will write a handbook to surviving in the inaka. For various reasons which may or may not be discussed at a later date...
View the Ishiyama gallery, here.
So, I went today to see Moriyama for myself. I happened to also know about Ishiyama-dera, which is the place where Murasaki SHIKIBU is said to have written her famous book, The Tale of Genji, the oldest continuously acknowledge novel in the world. Since I am in the midst of a bit of private study on this and related matters, I took the opportunity to visit. I had intended, originally, to finish the day with this excursion, but, as fate would have it, I saw Ishiyama-dera on my way to Moriyama rather than from. I think it worked out better that way, anyway... so here we have some pictures and commentary :
( Pictures and Commentary : Ishiyama-dera )
Anyway, I was so pleasantly impressed with Ishiyama-dera that I bought two metal-cut-outs of Murasaki at work and a charm for "safe returns". I will send one of the bookmark-plates and the charm {one item to each, that is...} to anyone who comments or PMs with their snailmail addresses...
A favorite point about Ishiyama-dera : the wonderful, rich, clean, earthy smells and sounds of flowing water. Just magnificent!
About Moriyama, I'd rather not comment, really, at this time. Except to say I will want a bicycle, that I did see at least three restaurants, and that a lot will depend on my apartment so I really hope that it is quite nice. Lots and lots of staring, again ; but people seem to have a slightly different attitude than they did in Shikoku about it, also, I'm much, much better with it than I was when I first came to this country--of course, I'm much better after living for a year somewhere where I'm not enough of an oddity to be stared at or at least people are cosmopolitan enough to know better than get caught at it. This will probably be the source of some trouble, still, but at least for the time being I think it'll be cope-able. The staring, I mean.
Ishiyama is very near the water--both the lake and the one river which flows out from Lake Biwa. It made quite an impression, really! (I was born in the land of 10,000 lakes, afterall...) One thing I noticed was that there were a lot of people rowing. I've been interested in rowing for a little bit ; perhaps, living in Shiga, the opportunity to partake of this sport will present enough of itself for me to snatch at it.
Overall, I think I will have a more active outdoors life there than I had in Kawanoe, which is fine by me. I also think I will write a handbook to surviving in the inaka. For various reasons which may or may not be discussed at a later date...
View the Ishiyama gallery, here.
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