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Daisen-in Review
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Daisen-in
- Address: Kita-ku, Kyoto
- Category: Religious Sites
- Location: Kita-ku
Fodor's Review:
Of all the subtemples at Daitoku-ji, Daisen-in is perhaps the best known – in part for its excellent landscape paintings by the renowned Soami (1465-1523), as well as the famed Muromachi-era karesansui garden, attributed to Kogaku Soko (1465-1548), the founder of the temple. Circling the building, the rock-and-gravel gardens depict the flow of life in the movement of a raked river, swirling around the rocks over a waterfall, to finally run into the ocean of nothingness.
- Cost: ¥400
- Open: Mar.–Nov., daily 9–5; Dec.–Feb., daily 9–4:30
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