Komyo-in Temple
Dry rock garden of raked gravel and moss-covered stones, a Zen master's first major commission.
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This guide to Komyo-in Temple in Kyoto follows Mirei Shigemori, an unproven forty-three-year-old designer who spent three years sketching gardens across Japan before getting his first major commission here in 1939, rebuilding a garden a typhoon had destroyed five years earlier. It traces the meaning behind his raked-gravel sea and trios of stone, and the small teahouse with its moon-shaped window. Look for the moss so thick locals call this the rainbow moss temple.
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