Filling the Time Between Imperial Villas

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Entrance Path

to the Saginomori Shrine (鷺森神社), Kyoto Japan

Continuing the story of my last post, “Revisiting Kyoto’s Fall Colors: Shugakuin Imperial Villa Last November”, on a day with friends last November in Kyoto, Japan filled with photographic delights, the story had ended
with our finishing
a visit to the Shugakuin Imperial Villa. We had some time before lunch, so
we paid a quick visit to the Saginomori Shrine (鷺森神社).

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Wishes

A small wall has “wish plaques”, where people write their wishes. Presumably, the shrine will burn them
later in a ceremony (like this small ceremony,
or this very large one).

People often wish
for happiness or for health, but
the girl who wrote the one whose text was visible to me had more specific
ideas:

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Nothing Too Special

the one in the upper right ask only “to hit it big in the lottery”

For lunch, we treated ourselves to French, at La Verveine for a $20 meal that in France
would cost, we were told (by a Frenchman) 5× the price.

This appetizer was much better than my quick photo of it would indicate.

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Getting Started

at La Verveine

I couldn't do the photography justice, so I put the camera away until the after-dinner coffee.

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Kataoka-Sensei

and his cute little cup

With the visit to the Imperial Villa and such a fantastic lunch, we'd had a great day so far, but the best still awaited...

To be continued...