Daisen-in Review

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Daisen-in

  • Address: Kita-ku, Kyoto

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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