Nanzen-ji Temple

Nanzenji has a very high status among all Japanese Zen temples, and is listed as the top five mountains in Kyoto and five mountains in Kamakura. There are many attractive spots in the vast Zen temple: the Abbot (National Treasure), which preserves 124 luxurious Momoyama-style sash paintings, Sanmon (Important Cultural Heritage), one of Japan's three major gates, the Hodo, the Imperial Palace, and more. In addition, there are also many gardens with beautiful and elegant artistic conception, such as the Chanyuan-style dry landscape garden "Huziduhe" located in Dafangzhang, and the dry landscape garden "Heguiting" located in Jindiyuan. The temple houses the famous painter Kano Tanyou's gate paintings and drinking tigers, which are also worth seeing. The Waterway Pavilion is an old image of the Lake Biwa Canal Project in Kyoto. The Lake Biwa Canal is a canal construction project that diverts water from Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture, a neighboring county of Kyoto, to Kyoto. Domestic water systems, industrial water and agricultural irrigation in the surrounding area benefit from this. The waterway pavilion of Nanzenji Temple was completed in Meiji 21 (1888), which was the result of the government's disdain for Buddhism in the Meiji period not to modify the canal line. The structure is rigid, and after a hundred years of tempering, the mottled red walls and the Zen temple gradually merge into one.