Well we've had a pretty busy day! we were up at 8 after about eleven hours sleep, which was much needed, and we walked down through Toriimoto, the really old part of Kyoto where kosho's house and the temple is into town. We visited 4 temples today, Adashino, Shakado, Ryoanji and Katakuji, which are some of the more famous ones, mostly dating from the 13th century -I took some photos but had my silly camera on the wrong setting so they all came out blue...
We also enjoyed a bit of green tea and sweets in a a tea ceremony at katakuji temple, served by nice women in kimonos. \we're learning a whole lot about Buddhism - we couldn't really have a much better guide!
the rain came on when we were at katakuji (the golden pavillion) and luckily Kosho's mum had made us pack umbrellas, as it poured! we then came home for an hour or so before heading out to the gion festival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gion_Matsuri) 
which is on all this week. Last night there were apparently 42 million people n the streets! It was truly amazing, with lots of people in traditional dress and lots of music...see some of the photos..
I'm shattered, and we have a busy day tomorrow, visiting the gallery for the first time to finalise our exhibition...oh, also, ross is keeping a blog at http://www.rossgoeskyoto.blogspot.com/ - have a look, his photos are better than mine!
and takaya also put up our statements etc. on the gallery website...http://www.geocities.jp/weissraum/takaya/reponew.htm
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