Around Kyoto - III

Around Kyoto - III (Kinkaku-ji)

Kyoto မွာ ေနာက္ထပ္ နာမည္ၾကီးတဲ့ ေနရာကေတာ့ Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion) ပါပဲ။ က်မတုိ႔ကေတာ့ အလြယ္တကူ “ေရႊေက်ာင္း”လုိ႔ပဲ ေခၚလုိက္တယ္။ Kyoto ျမိဳ႕ရဲ႕ ေျမာက္ဘက္မွာ တည္ရွိျပီး Kinkakuji Area ထဲမွာ ပါ၀င္ပါတယ္။ Kyoto Station ကေန sightseeing bus စီးမယ္ဆုိရင္ ကားနံပါတ္ ၁၀၁ နဲ႔ ၂၀၅ စီးရမယ္လုိ႔ ဘတ္စ္ကားလမ္းညႊန္မွာေတာ့ ျပထားပါတယ္။

က်မတုိ႔တုန္းက Sanjūsangen-dō ဘုရားေက်ာင္းကေနတဆင့္ ဘတ္စ္ကားစီးရမယ္ဆုိရင္ မိနစ္ ၄၀ ေက်ာ္ေလာက္ ၾကာမွာဆုိေတာ့ ဘတ္စ္မစီးေတာ့ပဲ Kyoto အေရွ႕ဘက္ကေန ေျမာက္ဘက္ကုိ taxi ငွားစီးျပီး သြားခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ Taxi နဲ႔ေတာင္ မိနစ္ ၃၀ ေလာက္ အခ်ိန္ေပးခဲ့ရျပီး ေရႊေက်ာင္းကုိ ေရာက္ေတာ့ ညေန ၄ နာရီ ေက်ာ္ေလာက္ျဖစ္ေနပါျပီ။ ၀င္ေၾကးက ယန္း ၄၀၀ ေပးရပါတယ္။ ဘုရားေက်ာင္း ပိတ္ခ်ိန္က ညေန ၅ နာရီဆုိ ပိတ္တာမို႔ ေရႊေက်ာင္း မပိတ္ခင္ အမွီ ေျပးလာခဲ့ရတာပါ။ ေနာက္ျပီး ဒီမွာက ၅ နာရီေလာက္ဆုိရင္ အေတာ္ ေမွာင္ေနတာမုိ႔ သူငယ္ခ်င္းလည္း ေရာက္တုန္းေရာက္ခုိက္မွာ ရႈခင္းလည္း ၾကည့္ရေအာင္နဲ႔ ဓာတ္ပုံရုိက္ခ်င္လည္း ရုိက္လုိ႔ရေအာင္ ကားငွားသြားလုိက္ၾကတာပါပဲ။

တကယ္လုိ႔မ်ား Kyoto မွာ နာမည္ၾကီးေနရာေတြပဲ ေရြးလည္မယ္ဆုိရင္ တေနရာနဲ႔ တေနရာ taxi စီးသြားလုိက္တာ အတန္ဆုံးပါပဲ။ လုိင္းကားက ေစ်းသက္သာေပမယ့္ ကားေစာင့္ရမယ့္ အခ်ိန္ရယ္ ေနာက္ျပီး ကားက မွတ္တုိင္တုိင္းမွာ ရပ္မွာဆုိေတာ့ အခ်ိန္ အေရးၾကီးရင္ ကားငွားစီးျပီး လည္တာ ပုိေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ကားခကလည္း အမ်ားၾကီး မေပးရေတာ့ လူ ၄ ေယာက္နဲ႔ ၅ ေယာက္ဆုိရင္ ကားစုငွားျပီး လည္တာ ပုိေကာင္းတယ္လုိ႔လည္း website တစ္ခုမွာေျပာထားပါေသးတယ္။

၀င္ေၾကးေပးျပီး အထဲကုိ ၀င္လုိက္တယ္ဆုိရင္ပဲ ေရႊေက်ာင္းဆုိတဲ့ နာမည္နဲ႔လိုက္ေအာင္ ေရႊေရာင္တ၀င္း၀င္းနဲ႔ ေက်ာင္းေဆာင္ကုိ ကန္ေရျပင္အလည္မွာေတြ႕ရပါေတာ့တယ္။ ကန္ေရွ႕က view ေကာင္းတဲ့ေနရာမွာလည္း ထုံးစံအတုိင္း အားလုံးက ေရႊေက်ာင္းကုိ ေနာက္ခံထားျပီး ဓာတ္ပုံရုိက္ခ်င္ၾကေတာ့ လူရွင္းေအာင္ မနည္း တန္းစီေစာင့္ရင္း မေမွာင္ခင္မွာ ဓာတ္ပုံအရင္ဆုံး ရုိက္လိုက္ရပါေသးတယ္။ (ကုိယ့္ blog မွာလည္း ဓာတ္ပ ုံပါခ်င္ေသးတာကုိး.. )

ဘုရားေက်ာင္းက ေပးတဲ့ လက္ကမ္းစာရြက္ေပၚမွာ ေရႊေက်ာင္းနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တာေတြကုိ အဂၤလိပ္လုိလည္းပါတာမုိ႔ ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။

History

Kinkaku (Golden Pavilion) is a popular name for one of the main buildings of this temple, which is properly called Rokuon-ji Temple. In the 1220's it was the comfortable villa of Kintsune Saionji.

Yoshimitsu, the 3rd Shōgun of Ashikaga, abdicated the throne in 1394. After three years, he began to build Kitayamaden and he made a special effort to make it a breath-taking site. He indulged in his peaceful life in this serene setting. After Yoshimitsu's death, Kitayamaden was made into a Zen temple in accordance with his will. All the buildings of those days came to ruin expect Kinkaku. The garden, however, remains as it was in former days and can be enjoyed as it was hundreds of years ago. Rokuon-ji Temple was inscribed as World Cultural Heritage in 1994.

Building

Kinkaku was formally called Shariden. The elegant, harmonious building consists of three types of architecture. The 1st floor is Shinden-zukuri, the palace style. It is named Hō-sui-in. The 2nd floor is Buke-zukuri, the style of the samurai house and is called Chō-on-dō. The 3rd floor is Karayō style or Zen temple style. It is called Kukkyō-chō. Both the 2nd and 3rd floors are covered with gold-leaf on Japanese lacquer. The roof, upon which the Chinese phoenix settles, is thatched with shingles.

Recently, the coating of Japanese lacquer was found a little decayed and a new coating as well as gilding with gold-leaf, much thicker than the original ones, was given to the building and was completed in 1987. Furthermore, the beautiful painting on the ceiling and the statue of Yoshimitsu was restored, with utmost care, to their original splendor. Then, the restoring of its roof was performed in the spring of 2003.

Points of interest

The name of the pond is Kyōko-chi (Mirror pond). The pond contains many large and small islands. Climbing a few steps, you stand at the edge of another small pond, An-min-taku. The small stone pagoda on the island is called Hakuja-no-tsuka (the mound in memory of the white snake).

The classic tea house is called Sekka-tei. In Sekka-tei there is a celebrated pillar made of a nandin. The house was restored in 1997. On the way to the exit of the temple, you will find the small Fudōdō shrine where the stone Fudō-myōō (Acara) is enshrined as a guardian.

စာရြက္ေပၚမွာ ေရးထားတာေတြကေတာ့ ဒါအကုန္ပါပဲ။ Website တခ်ိဳ႕ကေတာ့ ေရႊေက်ာင္းအတြင္းထဲမွာရွိတဲ့ ဓာတ္ပုံေတြကုိ ေဖာ္ျပေပးထားတာေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ ေရႊေက်ာင္းကုိ အျပင္ကေနပဲၾကည့္ခြင့္ရွိျပီး ေက်ာင္းေဆာင္ထဲကုိေတာ့ ၀င္လုိ႔မရပါဘူး။ ေရႊေက်ာင္းကုိ က်မေရာက္ဖူးတာ ၂ ခါရွိေပမယ့္ ၂ ခါစလုံးက အရမ္းေအးတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာပဲ ေရာက္ျဖစ္တာမုိ႔ ရာသီဥတုက အျမဲတမ္းပဲ ညိဳ႕မႈိင္းမႈိင္းအျဖစ္ ျမင္ခဲ့ရတာခ်ည္းပါပဲ။ ေရာက္သြားတုန္းကေတာ့ စာရြက္ထဲက အေၾကာင္းအရာေတြလည္း ေသခ်ာ မဖတ္မိပဲ ေမွာင္ေနျပီမုိ႔ ျမန္ျမန္ သြက္သြက္ ပန္းျခံထဲ ႏွံ႔ေအာင္ ေလွ်ာက္ၾကည့္ရင္း ျပန္လာခဲ့ရပါေတာ့တယ္။ တကယ္လုိ႔ ဘုရားေက်ာင္းအတြင္းဘက္က ပုံေတြ ၾကည့္ခ်င္တယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ဒီမွာ ၾကည့္လုိ႔ရပါတယ္။

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