"How about a little fire, Scarecrow?"
The first place I came across was Komachidera's graveyard...although I had to wander around a little bit, and look from a higher place to see where the temple itself was....hidden away
up the hill from the graveyard.
(As for the cup--it's traditional to bring offerings of food or drink for the deceased.)
There was some construction going on at Komachidera, so I didn't want to
poke around too much and get in the way...
Then I pedaled uphill some more...
The second temple I found, Senshouji, was even smaller, and appeared to be unmanned. This altar was open to the outside, so I suppose that means the rest of the building was the temple itself, although it looked rather informal. But then it's probably always been just a teeny, local temple.
Nummy bryophyte specimen, in stages of sexual reproduction,
with the sporophytes growing up out of, and nutritionally dependent on,
the gametophytes. Whee, botany!
a beautiful fukuro carving
I think this is actually someone's home, though I don't know why it would have
the kanji for "water" on the outside...
Tatsuta-Ookami: "Talk about your fixer-upper."
(Likewise, I was afraid to poke around too much,
since it looked like someone was making repairs...)
I passed this amazing home garden with a carp pond biking up towards
the Kibuneguchi area, where the river splits around the mountain...
Biking as far as I did uphill in pretty warm weather wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, although I know the distance from I-House just to the main Kifune shrine was more than 5 kilometers. I ended up going about another .6 kilometers to the last sub-shrine...which I think comes out to almost 3.5 miles? It helped that I wore light clothing and kept water bottles on me person. Also, for the majority of the trip, I was riding on the road alongside the river, which often gave me refreshing air currents, especially when passing by the waterfalls.
"More to come, more to come! I said brief, not infinitesimal!" ~They Seek Him Here, The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical)
Haha, my posts are far from infinitesimal, but it definitely sounds cooler than "To Be Continued..."
