Top of Mt. Minobu on a foggy early morning, Okunoin Shishinkaku.

Kitano Tenmangu Shrine 北野天満宮 Kyoto, Japan

嵐山モンキーパークいわたやま Iwatayama Monkey Park Kyoto, Japan

Kitano Tenmangu Shrine 北野天満宮 Kyoto, Japan

Fushimi Inari Shrine 伏见稻禾大社 Kyoto, Japan

身延山久遠寺 Kuon-ji temple, Mt. Minobu Japan

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

View from Kiyomizu-dera Kyoto, Japan

金閣寺 Kinkaku-ji temple, Kyoto

Fushimi Inari Shrine 伏见稻禾大社

"My responsibility is toward my heart, not toward anybody else in the world. So is your responsibility only toward your own being. Don’t go against it, because going against it is committing suicide, is destroying yourself. And what is the gain? Even if people give you respect, and people think that you are a very sober, respectable, honorable man, these things are not going to nourish your being. They are not going to give you any more insight into life and its tremendous beauty."