The artists Dunhill & O´Brien who work collaboratively, are coming to Kyoto to work with stones and create a "Stone Appreciation Study Room" at the Seika university.
We had a class outing to look at, take photos and contemplate some famous stones here in Kyoto.
This is a stone at a shrine which is used to attach your wish (you have to pay to do this, more expensive if you want the wish to last longer...) and then you go through the hole in the middle - from the front o break up relationships and from the back to mend them. Most people seemed to do it both ways.
Then we went to a temple Kiyomizu-dera, which has the love stones:
They look like this:
And this:
There was a great climb to the temple, but the views were worth it:
There was also a fountain of special water you could queue up to drink... I can´t remember what benefit it would give you...
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