1000 yen to meet the buddha, only to find a cat, dotted with yin and yang, guiding the spirits of the pudgy westerners, selfie sticks drawn like katanas, to cut a piece of the red dawn, to call our own. It is given, and in stillness received. Can you hear it? Whispered in the bamboo in the softest green — shhh. #kyoto #kyotojapan #japan #kyototrip