Friday 17 March 2017

Arashiyama Bamboo Grove

One of Japan's most amazing sights is on the outskirts of Kyoto City in Arashiyama Park, near the Zen Buddhist temple of Tenryu-ji, which is a World Heritage Site.


The popularity of this place is associated not only with amazing beauty, but also with the unusual calming effect that the forest exerts. This type of trees in combination with the wind strolling between the towering trunks, forms a distant semblance of music, which causes the Japanese a sense of harmony and pacification. That is why the Japanese government contributed the sounds of a bamboo forest to a hundred protected national sights.


The sound of wind in the bamboo forest of Sagano was recognized as one of the one hundred amazing sounds associated with people around the world with Japan. Back in the 1870s, when Edison was looking for good bamboo as a material for his lamp, the Governor of Kyoto recommended him two sources, among which was Sagano. But Edison chose a different place for the bamboo forest of Sagano.


In the countries of the East they have long known about the amazing properties of bamboo - in India it is considered a symbol of friendship, in China - a symbol of longevity, and Japan believes that bamboo trees protect from evil spirits, which is why they surround many Japanese churches. In the Sagano area of bamboo make baskets, boxes and even dishes.


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