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The famous bamboo groves in Arashiyama, ,makes a great background choice for wallpaper or desktop, Kyoto, Japan

Omikuji are pre written random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan. A small coin offering is made to the Shrine or Temple and then the omikuji are randomly chosen from a box, hoping for the fortune to be good. The Omikuji paper strips include a general blessing which can be about health, fortune, life, etc. When the prediction is bad, it is custom to fold up the strip of paper and attach it beside other bad fortunes to a tree or a wall of metal wires. If the fortune is good, you have the option of also tying it up to increase the fortune for a greater effect, or can keep it for luck. Kyoto, Japan

Over a 30 year period the famous silent film era actor Okochi Denjiro (1898-1962) constructed this unique garden villa on the south side of Mount Ogura, Kyoto, Japan

Rakushisha is the cottage of the genroku poet Mukai Kyorai who was one of 10 disciples of the famous haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694), Kyoto, Japan

Still ponds, beautiful Japanese Maple autumn colours and landscape scenery in the Korakuen Garden. Okayama, Japan