源光庵 / 血天井

I went to Genko-an located in northwestern Kyoto. This temple is famous for "The window of confusion (square one)" and "The window of Enlightenment (circle one)". Its garden has Kita-yama (northern mountain) as Shakkei (borrowing landscape). But I couldn't see Kita-yama because trees were grown too much. Anyway, the garden was pretty and I liked it.
Nice wind blew through rooms, cause all windows were opened.


京都の北西のほうの源光庵に行きました。京都といっても端っこのほうなので、すごい田舎で、このお寺は迷いの窓（四角いほう）と悟りの窓（丸いほう）で有名です。北山を借景としてるらしいが、木が生い茂りすぎてあんまり見えなかったけど、枯山水のお庭がきれいです。
窓は全部開けられていて、とっても涼しかったです。ええ感じの風が吹くし。

And the temple is famous for its ceiling boards as well. They aren't just ceilings. They are bloody ceilings. You can see a foot mark in a upper photo↑. It was blood in the past (about 400 years ago). These ceiling boards were floor boards of Husimi-Momoyama-castle. When the load of castle and his followers (Samurai) had a war in the castle, they lose and around 2000 samurais were killed or committed suicide with their swords. Genko-an decided to use bloody floor boards of the castle as the temple's ceiling boards for calming down souls of samurai.

↓It says here's an foot mark of blood. There was an hand mark as well.

そして、もうひとつ有名な要素があって、この血天井です。上の写真は天井の写真やねんけど、足型がついてて、これはかつての血痕らしい。この天井は昔は伏見桃山城の床で、2000人ぐらいが討ち死に、または自刃して死んでしまったらしい。そんな彼らを供養するために、天井としてその床を使ってるんやって。こわい。

↓こんなかんじでどこにどんな跡があるか書いてくれてる。他には手形もあった。