It being a short holiday weekend here, I put down my normal reading and working to take a short car ride (about an hour and a half) to Izunuma, where I had no idea what to expect, hearing only half of what was being said (my not paying attention, really), but even upon driving near the destination and looking at the distance, I knew it was something that I desperately wanted to see. It was a field of giant pink lotuses covering a distance of miles, and which some intrepid citizens have carved a pathway through in order to drive a boat through. It looked as if on flat land, but it was all over water. The size of the lotuses themselves were gigantic, and it is easy to see why some have depicted the Buddha sitting on one, because it only takes a little imagination to think that the lotuses can bloom much larger (perhaps they can, I am unsure with my pathetic knowledge of nature-)
Photographs even by the best of so-called photographers being but poor representations of reality,it is rather senseless to present you with my own, but I only do so because I want to share with you some of the quiet joy that was seen by some of us that afternoon.
Although the navigator of the little motor propelled boat said that the best time to see it would be around sundown, which can be easily imagined.
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| the entrance pavilions |
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