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Two details from “An Illustrated Guide to Mount Kōya” (高野山案内図), a woodblock print map published during the Edo Period (1600-1868), the top detail showing the Oku no In area (奥の院) with its vast cemetery and the bottom one the central Danjōgaran area (壇上伽藍) with the Great Pagoda (根本大塔) and other key buildings
Images from the extensively illustrated site of the New Historic Map Society of Japan (新日本古地図学会), posted July 14, 2013 (see source)
Ticket stub for a one-day bus pass for Mount Kōya (高野山), with the East Pagoda of the central Danjōgaran area (壇上伽藍) pictured
(Acquired August 18, 1994)
The Great Pagoda (根本大塔) in the central Danjōgaran area (壇上伽藍) of Mount Kōya (高野山)
(Photo taken August 18, 1994)
Multiple views of Konpon Daito Circling Dainichi Nyorai, the cosmic Buddha and the four moons helpful Buddhas who assist them. Erected originally by Kobo Daishi [father of Shingon Buddhism master calligrapher philosopher mathematician et al] in 819 rebuilt for the last time in the 1930s. Japan is littered with stories of Fire Time and again the sacred burns and time and again it is rebuilt. And the end of each long journey I wonder who I will return as curious how hard it is to protect the new, softer flesh we develop when traveling alone with time for contemplation and self reflection. I dread the act of re-armoring. If only I could hold this softness of self A little longer. . . . #高野山 #壇上伽藍 #根本大塔 #danjogaran #buddhist #buddhisttemple #kobodaishi #koysan #japan #igersjapan #temple #sacred #traveljournal #travelblogger #travelphotography #travel #travelogue #explorepage #explore #exploreeverything #solotraveling #solotravel #womenwhotravel (at Danjo Garan Complex) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4JQBu8p5SQ/?igshid=10m00qhpag2or
Konpon Daito, Danjō Garan, Koyasan, Japan #konpondaito #konpondaitopagoda #danjogaran #koyasan ##buddhism #temple #pagoda #japan #nippon #travel #travelphotography (presso Konpon Daito Great Fundamental Pagoda) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw8XRTVjyqw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13o8myxng194v
