Arashiyama Bamboo Forest

This guide to the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest in Kyoto follows Japan's 1996 register of a hundred sounds worth protecting, one of which is the wind moving through the bamboo around you. It also traces the path toward Tenryu-ji, a temple built in 1339 by the shogun Ashikaga Takauji as an act of guilt for helping destroy the emperor he once served, and the monk Muso Soseki who designed its garden. Stand still and listen for the stalks knocking overhead.