Naniwa palace, Tamatsukuri Church, Tennoji 7saka, Shitennoji Temple
15 march 2020 Sunday, my friend comes from Tokyo.
We have met at Osaka.
13:00. He appeared in front of me where I was waiting in front of the underground station in front of the Osaka castle.
We start our tour called the Oyodo club.
We checked the Kaiduka that ancient people throw garbage.
We went to Tamatsukuri charch.
It has a very good picture of the Virgin Mary.
And go pass-through Naniwa-no-Miya that Japanese ancient palace.
I also checked out the Ryubuchi Temple.
Here's an interesting tombstone.
Akitari Akishino's tombstone reads, "Heihachiro Oshio and his son fled to Europe".
From now, we start to walk Tennouji 7 slopes.
The first slope is Shingon-zaka.
You will see the IKUTAMA shrine when you get top of the slope.
I wanted to see the stone statue of Ihara Saikaku at the Ikukunitama Shrine.
Ihara Saikaku was about 42 years old when he broke a new record by writing 23,500 haiku in a day and night in this area, and called himself "20,000 O" (20,000 old man).
It's crazy to imagine that a person like the one in the picture is still writing haiku even though he's tired in the morning after staying up all night.
I will be 42 this year too.
The second slope is Genshyoji-zaka.
The 3rd slope is Kuchinazaka.
It was on the wall.
The Seventeenth Article Constitution created by Shotoku-taishi (Prince Shotoku).
It's already written about things like diversity.
You can't get mad at people for different.
We all have own thoughts.
Don't hold others in bondage.
This area is called "Yuuhi-gaoka" (sunset hill).
We have found a nice house.
The 4th slope is Aizen Zaka.
The 5th is Shimizu-zaka.
The 6th is Tenjinzaka.
There is a waterfall at Shimizu Temple.
Some people go to waterfalls to train their minds.
The 7th is Ousaka.
This is the last of them.
There is a Yasui Shrine.
The famous warlord Sanada Yukimura died here.
We made it to our final destination, Shitennoji Temple.
1400 years of history.
It is said that the west gate of Shitennoji is the east gate of the Pure Land of Paradise.
At 18:00, I left my friends and went home.
