Tea Ceremony at the Kitano Tenman-gū Shrine (北野天満宮)! Yesterday was the annual “Baika-sai Plum Blossom Viewing Festival at Kitano Tenman-gu Shrine” and the Tea Ceremony performed by the geiko and maiko from the neighborhood. So many people …… Will upload more pics time permitting soon….Very beautiful kimonos, so gracious too, a privilege to see. Although, to have the whipped green Continue reading «Tea Ceremony at the Kitano Tenman-gū Shrine (北野天満宮) In Kyoto!»

Kitano Tenman-gū is a Shinto shrine in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It was built in 947, to appease the angry spirit of bureaucrat, scholar and poet Sugawara no Michizane, who had been exiled as a result of political maneuvers of his enemies in the Fujiwara clan. The shrine became the object of Imperial patronage during the early Heian period. In 965, Emperor Continue reading «Baikasai (梅花祭) at Kitano Tenman Gu, Kyoto!»