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Copies of Edo-period paintings sent to Kyoto temple

KYOTO, Japan - Kongoji, a Buddhist temple in Kameoka, Kyoto, western Japan, receives on March 13, 2014, copies of two out of 12 paintings by Maruyama Okyo, a painter from the Edo period. The photo shows one of the copies (R) and its original preserved as a hanging scroll.

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Time-honored Japanese folding screen shown in Kyoto

A time-honored valuable Japanese folding screen depicting landscapes and other important cultural properties are shown to the press at the Kyoto National Museum in the western Japan city on March 3, 2015. The gold-foil screen, part of the Amanosan Kongoji Temple treasures, dates back to the 15th century. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Autumn tints of Takinogawa, Oji

This seems to be Otonashi River (Shakujii River near Kongoji, the autumn colours temple. A bridge with a romantic atmosphere is said to have spanned a bend in the river. There was a bridge with a pleasant atmosphere. The deity Benzaiten was enshrined in a hollow in the rock near the bridge. A teahouse once stood on the hill. The river merges into Sumida River (formerly Arakawa), which flows northeast. Taken in the mid-Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number88‐35‐0]

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Autumn tints of Takinogawa, Oji

This bridge appears many times in photographs of Takinogawa taken during the Meiji Period. The former Takinogawa Village was located west of Mt. Asuka. The groves of maple trees where people enjoyed the autumn colours centered around Kongoji, which was also called the autumn colours temple (present-day Takinogawa 3-chome, Kita Ward). People enjoyed the cherry blossoms at Mt. Asuka in spring and the colourful leaves of Takinogawa in autumn. Mid-Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number85‐13‐0]

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Autumn tints of Takinogawa, Oji

The red leaves of Takino River. Visitors climbing along the river arrive at a place called the red leaves temple or Kongoji of Takino River.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number31‐78‐0]

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Teahouse at takinogawa

Kongoji is famous for the red leaves over Takino River. It is also called Momijidera (red leaves temple) and many novelists, calligraphers and tourists visited the place. For tourism to prosper at a site like this, translation of impressions from Chinese brush painting, the Japanese garden, and beauty of nature was necessary.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number31‐39‐0]