Lunch at a temple

gate of a temple 

Japanese style garden

Wed., October 22

I went to a temple named Jo-fu-ku-ji at Na-ri-wa to enjoy lunch with my sisters-in-law the day before yesterday.

We drove to the temple in the heavy rain .

As we had had a reservation, we decided to go in spite of the heavy rain.

It was the first time in about 30 years, so my memory of that time had  almost missed.

I had known that the dishes were made with the cooperation of the women of the neifgborhood.

And this time, I was surprized very much at the beauty of the rebuilt building for lunch and the dishes that were very complicated and refind by hand made.

 table setting

 

five sorts of food 

 

deep-fried dishes using seasonal vegetables

Two kinds of soup, chestnut rice, and pickled vegetables were followed to this dish, but i was too busy in enjoying dishes to take pictures. 

 

hand-made dessert  

 

menu

The dishes were much more splendid than I expected.

* We call these dishes 'Shojinryouri' and they make dishes without meat and fish.

In the midst of autumn

Mikoshi for children

Sacred lantern in my house　

Mikoshi 

We held an autumn festival from October 11 to 12. 

And we also had a large-scale typhoon No.19 that brought lots of damage all over Japan. 

Strong wind blew yesterday here too.

I found many scattered plant pot this morning.
 

But It was a fine autumn day today after the passage of a typhoon.

sweet persimmons 

I harvested these persimmons with my husband this afternoon.

I presented some of them to my neighbors.

These are a mere part of them, so there are lots of persimmons left on the persimmon tree.

Crows and other birds will be glad to see them.