04 May, 2007

the moon crossing a bridge

It was at the beginning of July, in early summer or already in mid-summer when I was in Arashiyama, Kyoto city, a former capital of this country. Around here, I felt accumulated flavors of historic afterglows people had saved from over 1200 years ago (It's very well-known in this country that Kyoto was build in 794).
In the pic, there was a bridge. Though the parapet of this bridge was made by "hinoki", a kind of cypress, the fundamental construction was maybe in reinforced concrete. So, this bridge was not the original one that was said to have been made over 1000 years ago, though I didn't know exactly when people had bridged the river at this place, or even I had totally no idea whether the original bridge was actually at this exact same place.
One certain thing I've known was its name. The bridge had been called "Togetu-kyou". In Japanese, "Togetu" is a literary phrase of saying "the moon crossing", and the latter "kyou" means just "bridge".
The moon was crossing a bridge.
The beautiful name had still remained over 1000 years ago.
Here was Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan

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