Zuiganji

Stayed with Yobu and Mami Yaguchi and the kids in Sendai. Yobu drove me up to Matsushima. We had lunch (oysters and beef tongue) at a small restaurant just outside the Zuiganji Temple, then spent several pleasant hours exploring the temple and the museum. The temple was founded in 828 as Enpukuji, a Tendai temple. In the 13th century it became a Rinzai Zen temple.




As we came out of the main temple building in the late afternoon, a bright half moon was visible in the blue sky. A solitary crow flapped among the ancient cedars.

photos by Yobu Yaguchi