常栄寺（Jyoei-ji）・雪舟庭（Sesshu-tei）；

We needed to go to our prefectural government's office (about an hour drive away from my city) to deal with public procedure concerning my father. Our prefectural capital is said to be "east Kyoto in Japan".  We stopped by the temple there called 常栄寺（Jyoei-ji; Jyoei temple); commonly known as 雪舟庭（Sesshu-tei; Sessｈu garden）.

About 500 years ago, the land lord at that time asked Sesshu, who was the monk and also the painter of ink paint, to construct the garden.

This is called "The bell tower gate, 鐘楼門 "
The bell was used to tell time when clocks weren't invented.

this is the front garden, left side of the gate

Sesshu-tei (garden) inside of the temple.
You can walk in the back of the garden and enjoy the view from behind.
So pity that the water in the pond was drained for the maintenance.
Also bit early for the foliage season...
The stone in the center of the picture below is supposed to be Fuji-mt.  
And each stone has meaning with them♪

*Things decorated inside*

picture of the folding screen Sesshu painted 

At different entrances, roof tiles which have family crests of 2 separate era's land lords were decorated with flowers. The wooden thing in the right pic is originally used to keep cooked rice warm. I vaguely remember using it when little. 

I'll link this post Our World Tuesday next week;

I expect to be busy week-end and early next-week,  but I'll visit you my friends;

Wishing you a lovely week-end and new-week♪♪♪