On Day 5 (Thursday June 28th) we went to Tenryu-ji, the reknown bamboo forest, and the Sagano rice paddies where we met a remarkable man who heads up a premier landscaping business.
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| Panorama of the main pond at Tenryu-ji. |
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| Proof of life. |
We did some watercolors at the rice paddies in Sagano.
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| Rice paddy in Sagano. |
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| Beautiful garden at the landscape business. |
We visited a landscape business that has been running of a long time (hundreds of years, I think). We met the most amazing little man, who told us that he studies trees for three years before pruning them. It seems that so much in Japan, craft-wise, is based on the apprenticeship system of old. Whether tea ceremony, traditional dance, ikebana (flower arrangement), temple-building, sword-making, gastronomy, or carpentry, the craftsmen study for years and years before becoming masters, if ever. In addition, businesses like the one we visited had generations of practice, since it is family run.
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| The very cool Sano-san |
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