Komyozen-ji

This guide to Komyozen-ji in Fukuoka opens with the fifteen stones on its raked-gravel garden, arranged to spell the character for light, and the temple's founding by the monk Tetsugyu Enshin back in the twelve seventies. It traces how the garden in front of you actually dates not to that century but to garden artist Mirei Shigemori's final working years. You will hear about the moss garden behind the hall, which Shigemori called the one drop sea garden, and how it earned the temple its local nickname.