At dusk in late autumn, a duck is swimming in the park pond.  The whiteness is particularly noticeable in dusk.  She will be looking for a night roost.  I wish she could find it early.

This “Torokko train” is an art deco-style five-car train that is pulled by a diesel locomotive. It takes a distance of 7.3km, from Torokko Arashiyama Sta. to Torokko Kameyama Sta. runs through Hozu Gorge, which is colored with autumn leaves.

There is a Yudofu restaurant called “Seizansodo” in the precinct of Tenryu-ji Temple, Kyoto Arashiyama. It is originally a lodging for pilgrims, a tatami room restaurant. The menu is a full course of yudofu and various other tofu.

The 25th Kobe Luminarie has been held since December 6th.  This event is held to wish for the requiem of approximately 6,500 dead people and the Kobe reconstruction due to the Great Hanshin Earthquake every December.

The autumn leaves are still beautiful because of the Global warming.  It shines in five colors with red, yellow and adding green leaves. But I’m sorry that we just can’t be simply happy about this.

A soba restaurant was found in the mountain village.  Chrysanthemum flowers are in bloom at the entrance.  Steaming soba noodles and chrysanthemum incense are unique to this season.

There has been a custom in Japan for a long time called “Komorigaki” where the harvest leaves some of the fruit. It has the meaning of giving thanks to the harvest or giving it to the birds.

Flowers are in bloom in the dead field.  But when I look closely, they are not flowers but burr-grasses. They are really beautiful and cute like flowers in full bloom. In this way, the flowers leave their offspring.

Koyasan Mikage-do is where Kobo Daishi Kukai lived everyday.  It is left as a memorial temple with his postmortem image.  The golden lanterns hang around the temple and shine in the autumn morning sun.

The play “Shuzenji Monogatari” written by Okamoto Kidoh is a popular Kabuki program. General Kamakura Yoriie orders the master of making masks to make his mask. A tragedy involving a daughter Katsura is unfolded from that thing.