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Japan - Kyoto - Detail of a bell at the Nashinoki Jinja shrine
Detail of a bell at the Nashinoki Jinja shrine, Kyoto, Japan.Nashinoki Shrine is a Shinto shrine immediately adjacent to the Kyoto Imperial Palace, established in 1885 and dedicated in 1915 to the spirits of court nobles Sanjô Sanetsumu and his son Sanetomi.The shrine is named after the town of Nashinoki, where the Sanjô family maintained a mansion. It contains an old tearoom which previously belonged to the Shinsenden of the Shunkôden of the Imperial Palace; the well at the shrine, known as Somei, is famous as well, the only one of "the three wells" of Kyoto to have not dried up
Author: Stuart Freedman
©Stuart Freedman
Photo size: 17.9 Mpixels (51.2 MB uncompressed) - 3431x5212 pixels (11.4x17.4 in / 29x44.1 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: architecture, bell, calm, cord, garden, harmonious, Japan, Japanese, kanji, Kyoto, meditation, meditative, patterns, peaceful, red, rope, Shinto, shrine, temple, tranquil
Published in: Japan - Kyoto - Kyudo