Today I am on a trip with my business partner.     We arrived to Nikko Toshogu Shrine. This year is the 400 year anniversary of Toshogu Shrine’s establishment. In those days the construction period of Nikko Toshogu Shrine was 17 months with thirty thousand people working in a day. This is third time to…

We were just in time before the election venue closed. Who on earth should I vote for? Those of you who will promise the campaign pledge,grasp this bar!! Maybe no one?! I had my daughter vote for me. This will be a good experience.

In Japan we have a wonderful culture, “Omotenashi”（treating other people with the heart of hospitality）. The things we can do for the guests and the supporters of the temple may be limited. However,we try what we can to help people enrich their own life.One of the things we do is to hang a painting of…

The warm weather had made the cherry blossoms fall. This year’s Houzouin’s cherry blossom light up will be over tonight. I hope many of you enjoyed the cherry blossoms. See you next year!

The season of bamboo shoots sprouting has come again. Our temple has a bamboo grove.   One of my specialties is find bamboo shoots. You do not find them by looking, but by the sense from you foot.   I found about 20 of them. Every year the first bamboo shoots taken will be given…

Today the weather has been back as if it is winter, and Utsunomiya（Tochigi Prefecture）had snow fall. April 8th is a special day for Buddhist because it is the day when Buddha was born in Nepal. in Buddhist it is said that “Kanro no ame” （the sweet rain） fell from heaven Buddha was given birth. Today’s…