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Today's "I'm laid off and bored" project.

Figured a torii gate for my desk would be really nice. So why spend $10 and buy one when I could 1) Pinch the skin between my thumb and finger between a hammer and chisel. 2) Make a mess everywhere. 3) Aggravate my lower back pain by bending over chiseling. 4) Realize how much of a pain in the ass cutting a mortice in a round dowel is.

Thankfully wood filler exists. 🤣

Photo 1: Red and white plum blossoms in the huge Imperial Palace park in north-central Kyōto City.

2. A gate to the inner precincts of the Kyōto Imperial Palace where the Emperors used to live for around a thousand years.

3. One of the Shintō shrines in the palace grounds, with bamboo, camellias, and white plum blossoms. The Imperial family is an integral part of the indigenous Shintō religion, with the Emperor a kind of deity identified with the nation and its lifestyle rhythms traditionally, such as through rituals for a bountiful rice harvest.

4. Close-up of pink plum blossoms. In the transition from winter to spring, the weather is often rainy, cloudy, or hazy, and the darker varieties of plum blossoms do not stay fresh for long after flowering, so it is difficult to get a clear photo like this, especially with a mobile phone. I do edit the frame to get closer and larger.

#Japan#Kyoto#palace

Photo 1: kawazu-zakura (河津桜), an early blossoming variety of cherry blossoms, which I found at a little-known site in Yodo (淀) in southeastern Kyōto Prefecture.

2: the largest gorintō (五輪塔) in Japan, representing five elements of the universe.

3-4: Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū (石清水八幡宮) is a major Shintō shrine in southeastern Kyōto Prefecture. It has exquisite architecture, many stone lanterns, and covers a large forested hill, a pristine environment for hiking.