#kyoto / water

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Saiho-ji Temple

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三宅八幡宮・妙満寺

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京都　平安神宮　🌸花菖蒲&睡蓮🪷

kyoto heianjingu 🌸 Japanese iris & water lily 🪷

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autumn at jonangu shrine in kyoto | source

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Katsura River, Kyoto Japan. @visitheworld

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Sakura at Fushimi ward, Kyoto

2024.04.07

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Daigo-ji, Kyoto, 2024

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Spider is Phoebe Bridger's coded and it makes me feel ill.

[lifeinkyoto]

A walk over summer fields

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“Sunset at Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto”

“Kiyomizu-dera, also known as the “Temple of the Pure Water Spring,” is a historic Buddhist temple nestled in Kyoto, Japan. With a rich history spanning over 1,250 years, the temple is situated halfway up Mount Otowa, amid Kyoto’s scenic Higashiyama mountain range. Dedicated to Kannon, a deity symbolizing mercy and compassion, Kiyomizu-dera attracts numerous visitors each year. I was lucky that I managed to time my visit to Kyoto with the peak of sakura season. For one week in spring, when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the temple extends its opening hours until dark, offering a mesmerizing view of the pagoda and over 1,500 cherry blossoms set against the setting sun.”

© Nina Kloss.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

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A beautiful Japanese garden in a mountain valley. I took this during a whirlwind bus tour of shrines and temples in Kyoto, and I lost track of the name of the location.

From my October 2023 Japan trip.

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[artschoolglasses]

The moat around Nijo-jo

Kyoto, Japan

[materialsscienceandengineering]

New material separates water from heavy water

A research group led by Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University's Institute for Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Japan and Cheng Gu of South China University of Technology, China have made a material that can effectively separate heavy water from normal water at room temperature.

Until now, this process has been very difficult and energy intensive. The findings have implications for industrial—and even biological—processes that involve using different forms of the same molecule. The scientists reported their results in the journal Nature.

Isotopologues are molecules that have the same chemical formula and whose atoms bond in similar arrangements, but at least one of their atoms has a different number of neutrons than the parent molecule. For example, a water molecule (H2O) is formed of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.

The nucleus of each of the hydrogen atoms contains one proton and no neutrons. In heavy water (D2O), on the other hand, the deuterium (D) atoms are hydrogen isotopes with nuclei containing one proton and one neutron. Heavy water has applications in nuclear reactors, medical imaging and in biological investigations.

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Sunlight through the willows along the banks of the Shirakawa River. @visitheworld @japan