WINTER PEONY.

                     There is a peony garden in the precincts of Ueno Toshogu shrine in Tokyo.
                       We can see winter peony flowers from January to March in this garden.

  　　　　　　　　　　　　　上野東照宮のぼたん苑に冬牡丹を見に行きました。

The peony garden and five storied pagoda of Kan-eij temple.

寛永寺の五重塔とぼたん苑です。

It's difficult to make peonies bloom in January.

Straw hut shelters are needed.

By macro lens.

Japanese allspice flowers are in full bloom too.

蝋梅も見事に咲いていました。

Japanese allspice.

By macro lens.

A magnolia has a lot of buds.

ハクモクレンにも蕾がいっぱいです。

Toshogu,Ueno was redecorated and became very beautiful.

上野東照宮は今年の元旦から改装後の公開がされました。

Main gate.

唐門（唐破風四脚門）です。

See-through fence.

透塀です。

Main building.

拝殿です。

権現造りです。

This shrine was made for Ieyasu Tokugawa.

He is the founder of Tokugawa government  and the government had lasted for 260 years.

His family precepts are very famous in Japan.  The precepts are as follows.

人の一生は、重荷を負うて遠き道を行くが如し、急ぐべからず。
The life of human is just like walking long way with heavy baggage. Never rush.


不自由を常と思えば不足なし、心に望み起らば困窮したるときを思い出すべし。
Stay in inconvenient situation all the time, them you will never feel your circumstance inconvenient. If you have unnecessary desire in your mind, remember when you have nothing but hard situation.

 堪忍は無事長久の基、怒りは敵と思え、勝つことばかり知りて、負けることを知らざれば、害その身に至る。
 Patience is the most important for keep everything safe and longer. Anger is the enemy. Thinking of victory all the time and never experiencing to be loser is not only good thing, but also that false ideal will harm your future.

己を責めて人を責めるな、及ばざるは過ぎたるより勝れり。
Be responsible all the time for all things. Never blame to other people. Be less is always better than too much.

                                                    Translated by MustLoveJapan.com

 

 

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