today was lots of driving. we saw modern buildings for the first time -- tadao ando's buildings near kobe.
lovely. (see the flicrk site)

but it turns out i really like the old stuff...

though, ando's work, at least what i saw today, was very much about movement and procession. interesting how everything ties together.

tomorrow we have to be ready at 6 to take the train to ise to see the ise shrine. this is basically the shrine of all shrines -- it's a huge deal and gets rebuilt every 20 years exactly how it has always been done, since the first time, to keep the knowledge within a generation (a generation used to be a lot shorter...) we won't get back until very late so i'll probably be out of commission.

we don't have any more days in kyoto....we leave on tuesday and we are taking day trips tomorrow and monday. then to tokyo!
it will be interesting to see how different the cities are. kyoto is so old and tokyo is so new -- exactly the way japan is.