Kyoto Temple by Patricia Larkin Green
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By: Patricia Larkin Green
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Width: 40 in.
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Height: 30 in.
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Depth: 1.5 in.
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Medium: Oil
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Material: Canvas (museum wrap)
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Style: Impressionism
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Theme: Landscape
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About This Artwork
Oil Painting
Kyoto was poetic and dreamy. It is surrounded by five mountains and everywhere you look you feel embraced. Gion Corner (the setting for Memoirs of a Geisha) was steps away from our luxurious hotel. I saw a Maiko (Geisha in training) floating down the street with ballerina steps. We glimpsed a Geisha, briefly, as a Rickshaw sailed pass us concealing her mostly from view.
Our days were filled with hikes and walks through narrow streets and up into the hillsides. Fortunately, sleek vending machines were tucked along many streets, and well stocked with "remon" drink, water and beer. One day, we walked for forty-five minutes up a switchback in a haze. When a little rain broke out, it was refreshing. I shut my umbrella, the air was so hot and thick with humidity the sudden release from the sky felt good. At the top of our climb we found a little park with slides, teeter totters and rope swings for those little red-bottomed monkeys. They interrupted grooming their partners to take peanuts and apples from us. They casually watched us for a minute as we turned to head back down the switchback, then resumed their grooming.
Temples buzzed quietly with Japanese tourists. Before you entered a Temple, Restaurant (and some shops and hotels) you knew to remove your sandals; slippers were set out for you. Yen was brandished everywhere to Buddhas for fortunes, lighting candles and striking Gongs with a padded bamboo or rope until the vibrations resonated throughout the space. Everywhere, people acknowledged each other. A gentle nod of the head to a passerby, a deep bow for greetings and good-byes.
The Zen Gardens and Bamboo Forests filled me with such a contentment. My eyes soaked in miles misted with every shade of green. Standing in this tranquil landscape with the wind whispering through steepled bamboos was heaven on earth.