PDF - Japanese Gardening Tools 3 Adult Coloring Book - 90 Days in Kyoto Part 3 of the Japanese Gardening Tools Adult Coloring Pages is ready for you to color! This part features sharp tools - a Nata hatchet, Kama sickle and my favourite Japanese pruning shears, the red-and-white Okatsuna secateurs (sentei-basami). I have omitted … Continue reading Part 3 – Japanese Gardening Tools Adult Coloring Pages
PDF - Japanese Gardening Tools 2 Adult Coloring Book - 90 Days in Kyoto Part 2 of the Japanese Gardening Tools Adult Coloring Pages is ready for you to download and color in. This part features Japanese brooms and maintenance (手入れ - te-ire) tools, as well as the famous and practical three-legged aluminium ladders and … Continue reading Part 2 – Japanese Gardening Tools Adult Coloring Pages
I hope you find coloring this temple garden scene just as relaxing as I found drawing it. It is based on a picture I snapped from behind the rocks of this Zen temple garden, an unusual view of the building. Download this Gravel and Rock Garden Coloring page here: Japanese Gravel and Rock Garden Coloring … Continue reading Gravel and Rock Garden Coloring Page
Get all you non-colors out and enjoy coloring this overview of Japanese Gardening Tools: Download the coloring page as PDF here: Japanese Gardening Tools 1 Coloring Book - 90 Days in Kyoto Jika-tabi (地下足袋)- classic Japanese gardener gear - soft rubber-soled cotton boots with metal kohaze clips to adjust individually to your calfs Tekkou (手甲) … Continue reading Part 1 – Coloring Japanese Garden Tools & Gear
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This feels like a real journey, like real travelling. It is a journey, a path and I don't know what to expect. All I can do is take the next step. And another one.
When I left the temple, I saw a lot of Japanese roof tiles (kawara 瓦), ornamental end pieces and ogre tiles called onigawara (鬼瓦) arranged on the ground under a tree. The temple just underwent major restoration work and the tiles were probably stored/exhibited there. The first thing that caught my eye was a row … Continue reading Onigawara – Japanese roof tiles at Toji-in temple in Kyoto
The first thing you see when after you take off your shoes at Toji-in temple is a huge daruma painting at the end of a long wooden corridor. The comical rendition of a seemingly grumpy Bhodidharma, with eyes wide open, surprises and and reliefs some of the heavy, solemn atmosphere one expects when entering a … Continue reading Grumpy Dumpty – Daruma paintings at Toji-in (等持院) in Kyoto
Japanese work days start early - very early. By 7:15 usually all the trucks have left the company and are on the way to the genba (現場 - another word that is not easily translated - it means scene, site, the place where stuff happens - in other terms: construction site for gardens). I arrived … Continue reading Day 1 – Texture
90 Days in Kyoto 