On Tuesday August, 14, our first full day in Kyoto, we started the day by touring the Kyoto Ecology Center and learning about environmental issues like global warming. The afternoon was spent near Ritsumeikan University, where we were staying. The photo above is from the neighborhood around the university. In the afternoon I did a little shopping and found a fantastic sweet shop, seen below.
That evening I participated in a special topics dinner on Religion and the State in Japan and the US over a dinner of Mos Burger, a Japanese fast food restaurant.
On Wednesday we had roundtable discussions in the morning, and an afternoon of sightseeing. My group started at the Kyoto Textile Center, where we first watched a kimono fashion show.
We next had a lesson in weaving, and made small textiles that we took home. This was my first try at it!
The loom.
The finished product!
Our next stop was Ginkakuji, built in the late 1400s by the Ashikaga shogunate. The following photos show the different views of the building from the landscape that surrounds it, as well as the bamboo forest and rock garden.
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