Morioka

[owlectomy]

184 miles, and still a ways to go before downtown Morioka, but I'll begin with posting a few interesting things I found in Morioka:

A four-hundred-year-old cherry tree growing out of a granite boulder may be one of the only individual trees with its own Wikipedia entry.

Houonji houses statues of the 500 disciples of Buddha. It's also where renowned author Miyazawa Kenji used to meditate--he lived in Morioka during his adolescence. And I learned a new thing about him: he was an advocate of vegetarianism. Which isn't surprising considering he was a pretty strict Buddhist, and also, he wrote "The Restaurant of Many Orders."

Ame Ni Mo Makezu, Miyazawa's most famous poem.

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I enjoyed reading both of those.