Indoor teapot cooker hearth.
This is Dad's Shinto shrine.
And his Buddhist alter.
A Chinese one
Carved one-piece woodblocks. Apparently the apprenticeship alone takes 20 years minimum, then it is a year of effort per block in the making!
Interior
gardens outside
his grandfathers 100yr + bonsai
And then it was time to go. That goodbye photo from yesterday should go here. Ok here it is. We had a great time with Tomohiro and his family, and will surely miss them.
Cliff saw monkeys running in the fields down there!
no idea about that big statue that loomed out from behind a town
It was nice to see lots of more rural Japan still out there. You can see some orange in the trees I think -- they were persimmons, fruiting everywhere.
And finally we got back to Kyoto
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