1 st October this festival is held in appreciation for the year’s grain harvest. The festival began as an offering of new rice husks, vegetables and fruit to the deity. The name comes from the portable shrine, which is adorned with a taro stalk roof. For the deity celebration on the 1st is a parade of portable shrines from the main shrine to the place of travel. For the return celebration on the 4th day, the parade returns from the place of travel to the main shrine.
Shisen-do is a delightful little temple in the northern part of the Higashi-yama mountains.
The temple name is Rokuroku-zan, Shisen-do Jozan-ji, of the Soto sect of Buddhism. It was originally a residence built-in 1641 by Jozan Ishikawa, an attendant to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Jozan was a man of culture and a tea master. He also knew how to use a sword.
This is one of the great gardens which use shaped azaleas rather than rocks. It is also a stroll, from the house down thru the garden on stairs and paths.
