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👣🧘‍♀️ LOTUS LOVE🪷😇

As rainy season deepens lotus plants emerge from the muddy beds of ponds, reaching above the waters to unfurl giant leaves.
In a few short weeks alien landscapes appear where once there were only bare stretches of water.

In Kyōto 'kanrensetsu' (観蓮節), 'lotus flower viewing', coincides with the culmination of the Gion Matsuri...almost as if the flowers have appeared to welcome the gods of Yasaka-jinja into the city.

#Kyoto #京都 #lotus #ハス #蓮 #Japan

Lotus flowers reach for the sky.
Lotus flowers begin to appear in the pond at To-ji (the famous pagoda rises in the background).
A bright pink lotus flower shows signs of beginning to open.
The early morning sun illuminates a lotus flower (seemingly from within).
26 June at 2:19 | Open on mastodon.social
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this world
bristles with thorns...
yet there are lotuses
世の中よ針だらけでも蓮の花
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1815.
Trans. David Lanoue.

The mesmerizing, ultrahydrophobic surface of lotus leaves😵‍💫👏😊

#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #Yakushiji #薬師寺 #Nara #奈良 #lotus #蓮 #haiku

26 June at 3:11 | Open on mastodon.social
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Lotus flowers in many ways perfectly compliment spring's cherry blossoms: sakura (桜) have become a symbol of life's impermanence in Japan, whereas the lotus (蓮 'hasu') offers a more hopeful message of enlightenment and rebirth.

#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #lotus #蓮 #ハス #観蓮節

Golden lotus flower sculpture at Ninna-ji.
Kannon sits on a lotus flower. The lantern was part of Manpuku-ji's winter light-up event.
In the pond before Manpuku-ji's main gate lantern fish and lotus plants rise above the waters.
Golden lotus bud (part of a sculpture at Ninna-ji).
26 June at 4:20 | Open on mastodon.social
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Growing from muddy pond beds into beautiful flowers, lotuses have long been symbols of wisdom and renewal.

It is said that Buddha could walk from birth, and everywhere he went lotus flowers bloomed from his footprints👣

There are over 800 varieties of the plant😇

#Japan #Kyoto #lotus #蓮 #Buddha

26 June at 6:06 | Open on mastodon.social
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