Japan Mountain Temples & Forest Monasteries Coloring Book

About this book

Sixty real mountain temples of Japan — and every one of them ready to color.

This book climbs Japan's sacred mountains from north to south, and every stop is a real place in its real forest: the temple inside the volcanic crater of Osorezan, the cliff-built Bishamon hall of Takkoku no Iwaya, the spiral Sazaedo tower of Aizu, the mausoleum of a shogun in the Nikko cedars, Kamakura's great Zen monasteries, the octagonal pagoda of Bessho, Mount Hiei's monastery mountain, the moss garden of Sanzen-in in Ohara, the brick aqueduct in the pines of Nanzen-ji, the towering Zao-do of Kinpusen-ji at Yoshino, Koyasan's Danjo Garan and the two hundred thousand mossy tombs of Okunoin, the hall thrown into the cliff at Nageire-do, the high temples of the Shikoku pilgrimage, and the ancient wooden hall of Fuki-ji on the Kunisaki Peninsula.

Every subject appears as a two-page spread: on one side, a full-color photo guide with a short, fascinating story — the temple's history, its forest, its treasures, and exactly how to color it — and on the other, a detailed coloring page of the very same view, converted from the real photograph so the scene you color is the scene itself.

Inside you will find: • Tohoku and the north — Osorezan, Takkoku no Iwaya, Jion-ji, the Aizu Sazaedo and Enzo-ji above the Tadami River • Nikko, Kamakura and the Kanto hills — Taiyu-in, Kencho-ji, Zuisen-ji's rock garden and the moss steps of Sugimoto-dera • The pagoda country — Anraku-ji, Zensan-ji, Yokokura-ji, Eiho-ji, Myotsu-ji and the carvers' temple of Inami • Hiei and the lake-country forest temples — Enryaku-ji, Eigen-ji, Saimyo-ji, Chomei-ji and Hyakusai-ji • Kyoto's mountain ring and beyond — Sanzen-in, Jingo-ji, Kozan-ji, Daigo-ji, Nanzen-ji, Tenryu-ji, Kinpusen-ji and Koyasan • The west and Shikoku — Nageire-do, Daisen-ji, Gakuen-ji, Mitaki-dera, Buttsu-ji, Kakurin-ji, Unpen-ji above the clouds and Iwaya-ji in its rock wall • Kyushu — Daikozen-ji's azalea valley, ancient Kanzeon-ji, the Kunisaki temples and the cave where Miyamoto Musashi wrote the Book of Five Rings • 60 full-color photo guides with the story of each place (about 92–112 words each) • None of these sixty subjects appeared in our previous Japan coloring books

Sixty temples in the mountains, one long pilgrimage from a volcanic crater to a swordsman's cave — bring pencils, and take your time.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.