The stream running through Kamigamo...There's a festival in the spring where people dress in Heian-period costume and recreate the practice of writing poems just in time to place them in sake cups floating down the stream past them.
Didn't find the name for this little shrine...
Just another one of those tucked away shrines along small residential streets.
This, however, had a name: Niitamatsushima Jinja, a small shrine for poetry.
In 1186, the famous poet Toshinari Fujiwara transferred the poetry deity Sotooshino Iratsume enshrined in Tamatsushima Jinja to his residence--here.
Below, a display outside the Origins of Ikebana place on Karasuma-dori (near the intersection with Sanjo-dori) I passed on the way to Mimuro, a kimono store. They have some nicely priced yukata (under 2000 yen for ladies' yukata) on sale through July if you're in Kyoto and interested--look them up. I highly recommend them. Their staff are very friendly and helpful, and they have staff who can speak English pretty well. The lady who helped me find some things also showed me the upper floors of the store, where they keep the much more expensive and beautiful formal kimono.
Crepe Ojisan, the main crepe chain here in Kyoto, I believe.
Nice VW.
Yatadera, in the Teramachi arcade area
Supposedly formed as a branch temple of Yatadera in Nara, before being moved to its current site in 1579, Yatadera's enshrined deity is Jizo.
The bell here is a sending bell, Okuri-gane, instead of a greeting bell, Mukae-gane,
to send off the spirits of he dead to a peaceful afterlife.
