The last thing Millinophile and Chickadee visited in Kamakura was the Hase-dera Temple.
Entrance to the temple grounds.
All of these little statues are bodhisattvas helping the souls of unborn children.
Lots of little statues.
The outside of a temple with an Amida Buddha. The main temple at Hase-dera has a giant statue of Kannon, the eleven-headed bodhisattva of mercy. The main temple was under renovation, so we couldn't take any pictures of the outside, and photography was not permitted inside.
The Buddhists ring this bell 108 times for the New Year.
An aerial view of Kamakura and the coast.
This is the Kyozo Sutra Archive. The turnable bookracks inside house thousands of sutras. Supposedly, turning the bookracks bestows the same virtue as actually reading all of the sutras.
The gardens surrounding the temple were very pretty.
You can't really tell in this picture, but some of these flowers are white and some are lavender.
Pitcher plants!
Our camera's battery died while taking this picture, so please excuse the blurriness. That petal is half light pink and half dark pink.
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