Zuishin-in Temple

This guide to Zuishin-in Temple in Kyoto tells of the poet Ono no Komachi, said to be the most beautiful woman in the city, who set a suitor named Fukakusa no Shosho a hundred-night test of devotion, with one seed left behind for every visit he made. It follows the temple's ties to her legend, from a hidden letter mound said to hold a thousand love letters to a well where she supposedly prepared her face each morning. Listen for how the story still gets marked every spring, when girls in pink robes dance among the plum trees.