The temple placed in the deep mountain No.2 (Myousenji temple / 明泉寺: Saku city / 佐久, Nagano)

Today, I will continue talking about Myousenji-temple.

Not only in the garden of temple, there where a lot of statues.
I still can't find the information in the internet, I should go there and hear more detailed story from priest. What only I know now is that this temple opened about 1200 years ago.

Walking through the bushes, I saw lots of statues.

This statue were on top of the huge rock.

I wondered who and how the statue was carried up on the rock.
I think more than ten men needs to do this work.

There were half buried statue.

The statue lay down.
How many years had passed since it were lay down.

It seemed that many and many years had pasted, they seem still beautiful.

Walking back to get off the mountain, I saw beautiful sunset.
The rice fields were reflecting the sunlight and shining in red.

It maybe beautiful in winter time, in the snow.
I would like to come back in the snowy seasons.

If you are going to this temple, try not break the trees and branches to keep the nature.

Thank you for reading!
See you soon!

明泉寺, 佐久市, 閼伽流山

The temple placed in the deep mountain No.1 (Myousenji temple / 明泉寺: Saku city / 佐久, Nagano)

I took a day off, and wondered what should I do. It was sunny good day.

When I was student, I liked to go trip without any plan.
I reminded the time and how I feel at that time, become happy, and started the car.
I run for few hours, and where I reached was city called Saku.

Saku is the city in Nagano prefecture.
I looked up google and know there are temple deep in the mountain.

The temple's name was Myousenji-temple.

The temple seemed not so famous, I found it in the Saku city's homepage.
What I saw were a lot of Buddhist statue in the mountain.

I decided to go this place.

The entrance was covered with trees.
Stairs were in little dark shade, but an old woman told me that if  I walk for an hour, I can see the statues.

The entrance was like this.

I decided to walk!

What only I had was a plastic bottle filled with water.
As it was so hot day, it was not easy to walk in the mountain.

There are point stones in each 100 meters.
The picture below is 6th checkpoint.

To go the top, you have to go through 12 check points.
The picture below is 9th one.

Finally, I reached an old building.

The first statue was at the entrance.

No one is here and it was so quiet.
Only old and beautiful statue were here.

In the homepage, it is said that this temple opened 1200 years ago.
The reason was not written, but I think there are nearly thousand of statue are here.
I will introduce more in next blog.

Thank you for reading!

Have a nice weekend!!

明泉寺, 佐久, 長野, 石仏, 閼伽流山