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| A Kyoto-style restaurant is located midway between Nanzen-ji Temple and Heian-jingu Shrine along the "Sosui"; the North Branch of the Lake Biwa Canal). The restaurant is noted for its sukiya [tea-ceremony]-style architecture and its beautifuly moss-covered Japanese garden by Jihyoe Ogawa. It is especially famous for the "Yu-dofu Kaiseki" or the tea lunch with boiled bean curds dishes. The name "Gimmond" is named after the mixture of the second owner's name Ginuemon Kobayashi (1800-1874) and the French phrase "beaux mondes" (high society). Hotel GIMMOND, Co. Ltd also run two hotels, Hotel Gimmond Tokyo, Dai-Demma-cho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo and Hotel Gimmond Kyoto, Takakura-Nishi-Hairu, Oikedori St., Kyoto. | ||
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(Thursday 17 February) Prof. Kiljoong Kim, Seoul National University (president of the James Joyce Society of Korea, left), Prof. Mari Nakao, Nara University (middle)and Prof. Chizuko Inoue, Baika Women's College (right). At Nanzenji Gimmond. | |
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(Thursday 17 February) Eishiro Ito, Iwate Prefectural University (left), Prof. Kiljoong Kim , Seoul National University (president of the James Joyce Society of Korea, middle), and Prof. Chizuko Inoue, Baika Women's College (right). Photo by Prof. Mari Nakao. At Nanzenji Gimmond. | |
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(Thursday 17 February) Prof. Kiljoong Kim, Seoul National University (president of the James Joyce Society of Korea, left 1), Eishiro Ito, Iwate Prefectural University (left 2), Prof. Mari Nakao, Nara University (right 2)and Prof. Chizuko Inoue, Baika Women's College (right 1). In front of Nanzenji Gimmond. | |
| Nanzen-ji Temple is a Zen temple at the foot of Kyoto's "Higashiyama" (lit. eastern hills). As the head temple of the Rinzai-shu sect's Nanzen-ji school of Zen Buddhism, it is one of the most important Zen temples. Nanzen-ji Temple was first built as a villa for Emperor Kameyama in 1264. In 1291, the Ex-Emperor Kamayama donated his villa to Daiminkoku-shi, a high Zen Buddhist and founder of the temple. Its main building, the "Daihojo" Hall (or "Seiryo-den," moved from the Imperial Palace in 1611 ; built by Hideyoshi Toyotomi) is famous for a wonderful karesansui (rock garden) and beautifully-painted fusumas (Japanese sliding doors) by the Kano School.
The temple's large entrance gate, completed in 1628, is called "San-mon" (the "Three Gates," not "Mountain Gate"). Several sub-temples and "Suiro-kaku" ("Sosui"), a water aqueduct, which is part of the Lake Biwa Canal dating from 1890, can be found in the vicinity of Nanzen-ji's buildings. |
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(Thursday 17 February) Prof. Chizuko Inoue, Baika Women's College (left), Prof. Kiljoong Kim, Seoul National University (president of the James Joyce Society of Korea, middle) and Prof. Mari Nakao, Nara University (right). At Nanzen-ji Temple. |
