#yumedono

[hst432]

真澄 純米大吟醸 夢殿

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[art-kyoto-jp]

No.436 at Horyuji Temple, Nara, Japan

[art-kyoto-jp]

No.200 at Horyuji Temple, Nara, Japan

On the top of the roof ahead is a metal container placed for holding the ashes of a dead body. The building is called as Yumedono and was built to worship Prince Shotoku, one of the founders who is said to have organized the fundamentals of Japan as a country in Nara era(710-794).

A series of neatly ordered roof tiles highlights the sacredness of the elegantly decorated container. Order and neatness give things something pure, sacred and elegant.

[sartorialjohnnyboy]

Onsenji Yumedono ryokan in Yamanashi prefecture, Japan:

http://www.onsenji.com/

[wishing-on-a-star95]

Yumedono, Japan. November 2012

[fustaoriental]

夢殿　細部 - Yumedono details

[svnkofa]

Kenji Omura - Yumedono