Rain at Higashi Hongan-ji Temple

Rain at Higashi Hongan-ji Temple presents Kyoto's great Jodo Shinshu Buddhist headquarters — rebuilt in the late 19th century after repeated fires and one of the largest wooden structures in the world — in the atmospheric condition of rainfall. The temple's enormous buildings, including the Goeido (Founder's Hall) which is said to be the largest wooden building in the world, take on a particular quality under rain: the massive dark roofs gleaming with water, the vast stone-paved precincts reflecting the sky, and the architectural scale seeming even more immense in the graying light of overcast weather.