Beauty of Shougenji Temple: Fukui

Enjoy a pretty landscaped Japanese garden!

Takako Sakamoto Oct 09, 2014 - 2 min read

<p>Beautiful main gate and the dried up lotus flower in the garden pond</p>

<p>Red and yellow autumn leaves surround the belfry under the sunshine</p>

<p>Field mustards reaching high up to the sky in front of Shougenji Temple, which is located in an idyllic residential area of Fukui</p>

<p>Stone marker of Shougenji Temple under the blue sky</p>

<p>Bronze lantern hanging from the roof of the main gate</p>

<p>Main gate towering over a smaller stone lantern in front</p>

<p>Thin bare tree growing on the rock in front of the belfry</p>

<p>Peeping at the main temple building (Soshi-do) through Japanese garden</p>

<p>Early autumn leaves under a blue sky</p>

<p>Bonsai pine tree with the main gate in the backdrops</p>

<p>Blue, vermilion, green and yellow...a fine autumn day to make you feel that life is beautiful!</p>

<p>Blue sky and green temple roof somehow complement each other</p>

<p>Looking at the main temple building through pine trees and a wisteria trellis</p>

<p>Dead lotus flowers and the main gate...summer is over and autumn is coming!</p>

I found this temple, Shougenji, on my way home. It is the head temple of 'Gugan Shinshu', which was founded in Fukui as a new sect of Jodo Shinshu in the Meiji Period. Since I found it by chance, I didn't expect it to be so beautiful. Especially, the pretty Japanese garden and the colored leaves around the belfry pleased my eyes. In the garden, there is a lotus pond in the corner of which irises are also planted. Just beside the pond, there is a wisteria trellis as well. The grounds of this temple must be beautiful all year-round. When I visited, the early autumn leaves were turning color, which contrasted clearly with green trees under a blue sky. They were just beautiful.

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Takako Sakamoto @takako.sakamoto

I was born in and grew up in Tokushima prefecture, and have lived in many places since then: Nishinomiya, Kyoto, Nara, Mie, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Fukuoka and Fukui. I am currently living in Yokohama City. All the places I lived, all the places I visited, I have loved dearly. The histor...