I planed driving to Tamba City and shooting photos of spring ephemeral 3 days ago, actually I did but katakuri flowers were regressed by snow falling. I just took some photos of flower buds and visited small temple near the katakuri garden. It was a happy accident. That small temple, Tassin-ji has huge nomber of old buddha statues made hundreds or thousand years ago. It was strange a small temple has numerous buddha statues, the legend only saggests a few circumstances. It is still mystery today. Unfortunately photo shooting is prohibited in the museum, I can report it was worth to see beautiful, unique and mysterious relic statues here.
Anyway, I visited the katakuri garden again today. It was very fine weather, so ephemeral flowers burst into bloom.
Katakuri is a kind of fawn lilies, they are usually seen in mid and northern Japan. There are a few colonies in Kansai(Kinki) Region. Kiyozumi is one of them. Here is a link to the article of Katakuri on wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythronium_japonicum
Temple Tassin-ji
Narcissi were blooming nicely in the garden.
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