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data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"80809\">reacquainting ourselves with Tokyo<\/a>, we took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Sendai early on a Saturday morning. Our first stop was the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sendai_Mediatheque\">Sendai Mediatheque<\/a>, Toyo Ito\u2019s celebrated glass-and-steel cultural centre with tree-like structural columns bisecting the interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7356-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7356-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7356-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7356-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7356-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On paper it\u2019s extraordinary; in person, the interiors had been filled with the kind of bland municipal furniture you find in any civic building. It felt like someone had taken a beautifully composed photograph and hung it in a cheap frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7357-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7357-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7357-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7357-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7357-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/NnefTTe7bNsFpmCi6\">Original Sendai Hitokuchi Gyoza Azuma<\/a> (\u5143\u7956\u4ed9\u53f0\u3072\u3068\u304f\u3061\u9903\u5b50 \u3042\u305a\u307e \u4e00\u756a\u753a\u5e97)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lunch made up for it. In a small gyoza place on Ichibancho we ordered plates of Sendai\u2019s signature bite-sized dumplings and fried chicken: crisp, salty, exactly what we needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7364-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7364-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7364-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7364-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7364-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From there we caught a local train west towards Yamadera, watching the city give way to countryside and then to wooded mountain valleys dusted with snow. Our plan was to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yama-dera\">Risshaku-ji<\/a> (\u7acb\u77f3\u5bfa), the temple complex that clings to the steep rock face of Mt. Hoju (\u5b9d\u73e0\u5c71). But we&#8217;d misjudged the timing. The temple closes at 3pm in winter, and by the time we arrived, the gates were shut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"82328\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020121-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020121-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020121-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020121-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020121-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"82284\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020123-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020123-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020123-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020123-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020123-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kRHZwRkNvbDwLmZ96\">Konponchudo Hall<\/a> (\u7acb\u77f3\u5bfa \u6839\u672c\u4e2d\u5802)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020129-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020129-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020129-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020129-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020129-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mizuko_kuy%C5%8D\">Jiz\u014d statues<\/a> dressed in knitted clothes at Yamadera Cemetery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We tried to salvage the afternoon with a hike nearby, but the trailhead was plastered with alarming bear-warning posters. Bold illustrations of Asiatic black bears in poses indicating that a gentle hug was not what they were after. In 2025, Japan recorded a record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2025\/12\/06\/japan\/society\/japan-casualties-record\/\">230 bear attacks<\/a>, with at least 13 fatalities. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T%C5%8Dhoku_region\">Tohoku<\/a> (northern Japan) was the worst-affected region. A growing bear population, shrinking rural communities, and poor acorn harvests had driven the animals further into human territory than ever before. We decided discretion was the better part of valour and retreated to the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020128-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020128-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020128-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020128-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020128-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A short train ride east brought us to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yamagata_(city)\">Yamagata<\/a> (\u5c71\u5f62\u5e02), a modest city at the edge of the Dewa mountains, where we checked in for the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"82288\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7376-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7376-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7376-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7376-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7376-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"82291\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020130-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020130-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020130-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020130-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020130-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We woke to find the city blanketed in fresh snow. It felt like a sign. Yamadera was only twenty minutes away by train. I was going back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020133-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020133-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020133-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020133-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020133-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tachiya River from <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/daBisVP4EHULRqw79\">Yamaderahoju Bridge<\/a> (\u5c71\u5bfa\u5b9d\u73e0\u6a4b)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Risshaku-ji was founded in 860 AD by the monk <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ennin\">Jikaku Daishi<\/a> (\u6148\u899a\u5927\u5e2b), also known as Ennin (\u5186\u4ec1), one of the most important figures in Japanese Buddhism. He had spent nine years studying in Tang dynasty China and returned to establish this remote mountain seminary under an imperial edict from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emperor_Seiwa\">Emperor Seiwa<\/a> (\u6e05\u548c\u5929\u7687). The temple was built to extend the influence of Kyoto&#8217;s great <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enryaku-ji\">Enryaku-ji<\/a> (\u5ef6\u66a6\u5bfa) into the rugged, largely untamed Tohoku frontier. It sits on the slopes of Mt. Hoju, its halls and prayer platforms perched on ledges of volcanic rock, connected by over a thousand stone steps worn smooth by centuries of pilgrims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020135-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020135-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020135-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020135-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020135-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the main hall, the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/3nPMFFvFD7dDLjXr8\">Konpon-chudo<\/a> (\u6839\u672c\u4e2d\u5802), a Buddhist flame is said to have burned continuously for more than a thousand years, originally lit from the sacred fire at Enryaku-ji itself. Whether or not you take this literally, I like the idea of a light maintained across generations, passed hand to hand through wars, earthquakes, and every century in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020126-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020126-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020126-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020126-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020126-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/o2gZCAURviXN6jay9\">Matsuo Basho and Kawai Sora<\/a> (\u677e\u5c3e\u82ad\u8549\u3068\u66fe\u826f\u306e\u50cf)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yamadera is perhaps most famous for its association with the haiku poet <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D\">Matsuo Basho<\/a> (\u677e\u5c3e\u82ad\u8549), who visited in the summer of 1689 during his journey through the north, later immortalised in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oku_no_Hosomichi\"><em>Oku no Hosomichi<\/em><\/a> (\u304a\u304f\u306e\u307b\u305d\u9053, <em>The Narrow Road to the Deep North<\/em>). Standing in the stillness of the temple grounds, he composed one of his most celebrated poems:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u9591\u3055\u3084\u5ca9\u306b\u3057\u307f\u5165\u308b\u8749\u306e\u58f0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Shizukasa ya \/ iwa ni shimiiru \/ semi no koe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such stillness \/ the cries of the cicadas \/ sink into the rocks<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020200-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020200-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020200-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020200-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020200-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/GBamSQRsZB7R21WJA\">Sanmon, main gate<\/a> (\u7acb\u77f3\u5bfa \u5c71\u9580)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020141-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020141-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020141-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020141-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020141-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"82295\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020143-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020143-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020143-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020143-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020143-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"82297\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020144-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020144-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020144-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020144-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020144-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, I heard almost nothing at all. Just the soft compression of snow underfoot and the occasional crack of a branch shedding its load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020146-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020146-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020146-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020146-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020146-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/4Zp9BpHAWoFvbFBW9\">Ni\u014dmon gate<\/a> (\u7acb\u77f3\u5bfa \u4ec1\u738b\u9580)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7404-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7404-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7404-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7404-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7404-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The climb took about twenty minutes. The stone steps were slippery in places, packed with fresh snow, and the path wound upward through cedar forest. Every few turns there was a stone lantern half-buried in white, or a small Buddhist statue with snow collecting on its head and shoulders, hands still pressed together in prayer. The mist hung low through the trees, thinning and thickening as I climbed, so that the path ahead kept appearing and disappearing. It was very quiet. I passed almost no one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020197-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020197-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020197-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020197-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020197-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"82299\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020163-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020163-1-scaled.jpeg 1707w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020163-1-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020163-1-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020163-1-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"82298\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020158-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020158-scaled.jpeg 1707w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020158-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020158-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020158-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020162-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020162-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020162-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020162-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020162-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Small halls and sub-temples clung to the rock face at intervals, connected by narrow stone paths and wooden stairways bolted into the cliff. Some were tucked into shallow caves, their dark interiors just visible behind weathered lattice screens. Others sat on ledges so narrow it was hard to believe anyone had thought to build there at all. Snow had settled on every roof and railing, softening the hard geometry of the structures against the grey volcanic rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020176-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020176-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020176-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020176-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020176-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/VA4nmzYWcwJMxPt1A\">Godaid\u014d<\/a> (\u7acb\u77f3\u5bfa \u4e94\u5927\u5802)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Near the top of the climb, the path opens onto Godaid\u014d (\u4e94\u5927\u5802), the Hall of the Five Wisdom Kings. It is named for the five fierce protective deities of Esoteric Buddhism. The hall itself is modest: a small wooden structure perched on a narrow ledge of rock, open on one side to the valley below. You step out onto its platform there is nothing between you and the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"82302\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020181-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020181-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020181-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020181-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020181-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"82303\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020188-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020188-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020188-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020188-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020188-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bare trees, the dark rock, the temple rooftops were all covered in white, and the surrounding mountains had become something extraordinary. Layers of grey and white receded into cloud, ridgeline folding behind ridgeline, each one paler than the last until they dissolved entirely into mist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looked, unmistakably, like a Chinese shanshui painting come to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020182-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020182-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020182-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020182-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020182-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shan_shui\"><em>Shanshui<\/em><\/a> (\u5c71\u6c34) literally means &#8220;mountain-water&#8221; and refers to the tradition of Chinese landscape painting in ink wash that stretches back over 1,600 years. They evoke a feeling: the vastness of nature, the smallness of the human figure within it, what&#8217;s shown and what&#8217;s left out. In a shanshui painting, mist is not merely atmosphere. Mist is the void, the negative space from which mountains emerge half-revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7394-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7394-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7394-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7394-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7394-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The great Song dynasty masters understood this. Their towering, misty compositions were not landscapes in the Western sense. They were philosophical statements about the relationship between humanity and the natural world, rooted in Daoist and Buddhist ideas of impermanence, emptiness, and harmony. To look at a shanshui painting is to be reminded that the world does not exist for our benefit. We are passing through it, briefly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020189-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020189-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020189-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020189-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020189-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing on the observation platform, watching the clouds drift slowly across the valley, revealing and concealing the monochrome landscape in turn, I understood this with a clarity that no gallery visit had ever provided. The snow-covered mountains were not <em>like<\/em> a shanshui painting. The paintings had always been faithful to <em>this<\/em>: to the actual experience of standing in the presence of mountains and weather and silence, and feeling, for a moment, genuinely small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020206-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020206-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020206-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020206-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1020206-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7405-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7405-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7405-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7405-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7405-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7405-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming down the thousand steps, a little cold and thoroughly elated, I stopped at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/yyam6PsTRcY8dgdm6\">Tsuki Coffee<\/a> (\u5c71\u5bfa\u5357\u9662), a small caf\u00e9 near the station. I ordered a hot <a href=\"https:\/\/brewedleaflove.com\/what-is-royal-milk-tea\/\">royal milk tea<\/a> (\u30ed\u30a4\u30e4\u30eb\u30df\u30eb\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30fc, a richer Japanese style where tea is simmered directly in milk rather than brewed separately) and sat by the window, watching the snow fall outside while waiting for the next train back to Yamagata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7406-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7406-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7406-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7406-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7406-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was one of those small interludes that make a trip. Warm hands around a cup. The satisfaction of having returned for something and found it was worth the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week spent reacquainting ourselves with Tokyo, we took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Sendai early on a Saturday morning. Our first stop was the Sendai Mediatheque, Toyo Ito\u2019s celebrated glass-and-steel cultural centre with tree-like structural columns bisecting the interior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Snow, silence, and a thousand stone steps above a frozen valley. 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